Just in: Maina stopped receiving salary since February 2013 - Kemi Adeosun

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- The minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun says Abdulrasheed Maina’s name is not in the federal government’s pay roll

- The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, corroborated the position of the minister

- Idris said Maina earned his last salary as a civil servant in February, 2013

Nigeria's minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun has said that the embattled former boss of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform Team, Abdulrasheed Maina last received salary as a civil servant in February, 2013, Daily Trust reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that Adeosun testifying before a House of Representatives panel investigating Maina's reinstatement told committee members that Maina’s name was not in the federal government’s pay roll.

The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, similarly corroborated Adeosun's position saying: "With respect to salary, from my records, I'm saying this categorical that Maina received the last salary in Feb, 2013. He was removed in March. I don't know from where Maina was getting salary."

"I checked the system with different combinations of his names, but I didn't see that. Payment of salary isn't done just like that. There are slips and other evidence. I think these things should be tendered before you."

The minister of finance added that: "We use two platforms to pay salary: IPPI and Gipmis. There was no any record that Maina was paid. His records have been moved to PTAD, and all the data of PTAD staff were captured. No such information is there."

However the investigative hearing took a twist when the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior in his submissions declared that he got instructions to reinstate Maina from the Office of the Head of Service to the Federation.

This did not go down well with Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita who immediately countered his position saying: “This is not quite correct to put it mildly," Vanguard reports.

Earlier, NAIJ.com reported that the House of Representatives has been informed that Abdulrasheed Maina, the sacked chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, is an American citizen.

The disclosure was made by the comptroller general of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mohammed Babandede, on Wednesday, November 29.

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While appearing before the adhoc committee investigating Maina’s controversial reinstatement into the Federal Civil Service, Babandede further disclosed that the ex-pension’s boss holds three passports.

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