The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned four persons before an Abuja High Court for their involvement in an alleged pension scam running to the tune of N1.2 billion.
According to a statement signed by EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the accused persons, allegedly smuggled fake names into the pensioners’ register when they were offered a biometric contract to regularise the names of pensioners on the pension payroll, by the former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye.
The four accused persons arraigned before Justice Abubakar Talba on a 29-count charge bordering on conspiracy, and obtaining by false pretence, allegedly smuggled in the names of fake pensioners, and collected unearned pensions.
According to the statement: “The four accused persons - Ibrahim Ahmed Mazangari, Muhammed Sani Sulaiman, Hajia Fatima Mazangari and Saleh Yerima Tsojon, were alleged to have obtained N1.2 billion from the federal government by false pretence and with intent to defraud, purporting same to be monthly pension payable to M. S. Suleiman, Saleh Yerima Tsojon, Isah U. Adamu, Daniel Mikano, and Abdulahi Garba Musa who were falsely held out at pensioners of the federal government, by inserting their names in the pensioners’ payroll.”
Uwujaren added that the alleged fraud involved two companies, which are Xangee Technologies Limited and Century Construction Company Limited.
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