THE last is yet to be heard on the missing N195 billion pension fund, as the Senate has concluded plans to summon the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Abubakar Mohammed, over his failure to arrest the chairman of the Presidential Pension Task Force Team, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina.
Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Establishment and Public Service and State and Local Government Administration, Senator Aloysius Etok, confirmed this to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Senate President, Senator David Mark, had, following the refusal of Maina to honour several invitations, issued a warrant of arrest asking the IGP to produce Maina before the committee last December.
“The Senate President, who is the number three citizen in this country, signed a warrant of arrest and the Inspector-General of Police ignored the order.
“This is very unfortunate, but the Senate is left with no other option than to invite the IGP to come and explain why he could not arrest Maina. We want to know if Maina is above the law of the land.
“The IGP must tell us his own fear and whether it is beyond his power to arrest Maina. We are seeking to know all these from the IGP.”
Etok further stated that “in our committee’s report that was submitted to the Senate in June 2012, which was adopted by the entire Senate, we said the continued existence of Maina’s task force is illegal and should be discontinued immediately because nowhere does any task force exist beyond six months.
“We also said Maina is a bad example in the public service and should be relieved of his appointment and prosecuted.
“He claimed that he has been spending N500 million monthly to pay police pension and, on our own, we discovered that he was spending between N600 million and N1 billion monthly to pay.
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