By Chizoba Ogbeche
Abuja
Following the disclosure by Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, representing Kano South constituency, that the alleged missing pension N195 billion is part of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), the Nigeria Accountability Forum (NAF), has demanded an apology from the Senate to Nigerians and particularly to all those alleged to have stolen the sum.
National Legal Officer of the NAF, Bar. Austine Kanu, in a statement in Abuja, said that the Senate owes Nigerians a duty of truth, stressing that people have lost their jobs, reputation and scandalised over poor diligence by the Senate in their oversight function.
According to Kanu, Gaya had cleared the air in an interview he granted the Sun Newspaper on April 3, 2016, where he admitted that the alleged missingN195 billion, which was attributed to the leadership of the Pension Task Team in 2012, was part of the monies currently in the government’s Single Treasury Account (TSA), at the CBN.
The legal officer expressed the worry that after the clarification, Senator Gaya that led the witch-hunt against the Pension Reform Task Team and especially its erstwhile chairman, Mallam Abdulrasheed Maina, “has not deemed it necessary to admit that the senate erred, and apologise to those they wrongfully maligned.
He added that Maina lost his job and his name dragged in the mud as a result of that defamation.
