Alleged N195b Fraud: Maina demands apology from Senate

The former Chair­man of the defunct Presi­dential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Ab­dulrasheed Maina, has reopened arguments on his innocence over the alleged plunder of N195 billion from recoveries made by his committee, following recent rev­elations by the Senate Committee Chairman, Kabiru Gaya to the ef­fect that the money was never siphoned as painted.

Maina, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja yes­terday, said members of the task team de­serve an apology from the Nigerian Senate for smearing their names, and particularly from Senator Kabiru Gaya.

Maina said his case is more grievous as none of the members of his team suffered any form of public odium like him, having been sin­gled out for persecution because of the lies told about him for which he was forced out of his job and maligned severally over an issue that never existed.

“I was singled out and suffered so much as a result of the false alle­gation”, he insisted, say­ing, nothing short of an apology and adequate compensation for all his sufferings can assuage his anger against a sys­tem he served diligently all his career.

According to Abdul­rasheed Maina, it is re­ally sad that the same man (Kabiru Gaya), who told the whole world that he stole N195 bilion has come out to say that the money is intact in Buhari’s TSA account in the CBN.