The Arewa Front for National Advancement, AFNA, has accused the chairman
\nof the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, of
\nbias and culpability over pension fraud in the country.<\/p>\n
National spokesperson of the group, Mallam Isa Haruna, in a statement in
\nAbuja on Tuesday alleged that Lamorde benefitted from the biometric
\nconducted by the Office of the Head of Service through the Pension Reform
\nTask Team, PRTT, as the EFCC was part of the team.<\/p>\n
Haruna further stated that Lamorde as Director of Operation of the
\nanti-graft body collected money for the biometric personally as well as
\nfor meetings which he never attended and only returned the money he had
\nearlier received for the biometric of those abroad following the Senate
\nCommittee Establishments inquiry into the matter.<\/p>\n
The group reiterated its allegation of political witch hunt and called for
\nthe sack of Larmode from the commission as he was now a willing tool in
\nthe hands of some cabal bent on tarnishing the reputation of Mr. Steve
\nOrosanye and Dr. Abdulrasheed Maina despite their patriotic service to the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
According to him, the EFCC lied when it said Maina was at large when the
\ncommission had never invited him or questioned him in the past on the
\nmatter of biometric contract.<\/p>\n
The AFNA spokesperson observed that the biometric yielded over 70, 000
\nghost pensioners as well as captured 170, 000 others, and contributed
\nabout N74billion into the 2012 budget.<\/p>\n
He commended Justice Gabriel Kolawole, for acknowledging that the case was
\nnot without political undertones, when he said that the court must \u201cremain
\nimmune to such issues which are rather complex, which no court of law has
\nthe capacity to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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