Pension Fraud: Group Writes Petition Against Gabasawa.



Kano state concern group of pensioners have writes a petition against the Executive chairman of  kano state pension Fund Trustee, Alhaji Sani Dawaki Gabasawa for squandering pension funds Worth millions of naira.

The group in the petition appealing to the Anti-graft agencies to come to their rescue and acertain the pension boss.

The group accused Gabasawa and his cronies of Maladministration, Nepotism and diverting funds meant for the payment of pensions.

"The anti-graft agency should make a thorough Investigation on the allegation of diversion of pension funds amounting to millions of naira".

_The government pension officers showed no sympathy".

"It was not a matter of ‘oh, I will soon get into your situation’, no. They will tell the pensioner ‘if you want your money, we are collecting so so percentage of your pension".

"You now must give money to somebody to influence him to work out your pension entitlement".

The group therefore want the Pension Trust Fund to, as a matter of necessity, commence periodic publication of reports on the activities, especially the finances liabilities as required by laws.

An investigation by WORLDWIDE NEWS into pensions in Kano State has uncovered an unfair and corrupt system, which leaves some elderly people sick and penniless, with government workers soliciting bribes before paying out pensions, people arbitrarily being declared ‘dead’ and having to prove they are alive before their pension is reinstated, and politicians being offered outrageous retirement packages.

A young man Mr. Umaru Bala, who disclosed that his father, a retired civil servant, was being asked to pay cash directly to an official working in the pension department before they would pay out his pension. 

WORLDWIDE NEWS also uncovered a list of over a thousand people in Kano State whose pensions had been stopped because the state decided they were no longer alive. Many on the list spent months trying to prove they were alive, often travelling long distances to the state capital, And this doesn’t just happen in Kano, but is replicated in states throughout the country.

More details on long story of pensioners’ agony and misery in Kano state under Governor Ganduje's Administration.



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