PenCom cries out over campaign of outrageous falsehood against the management

By allcitynews.ng

The Management of National Pension Commission {PenCom} has cried out and raised alarm against renewed campaign of outrageous
falsehood against the National Pension Commission {PenCom} and the Director General, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, over some imagined financial impropriety.

Expressing surprise at the level the false report is being circulated, the leadership of PenCom noted that “the promoters of this fiction went to the extent of manufacturing documents and listing non-existent bank accounts to make the fabrication look real, a fiction remains a fiction and can never become the truth no matter how many times it is repeated and recycled.”

The said false report, according to PenCom Media department, also went ahead to “alleged that the Director General was paid millions of dollars as estacodes for foreign trips she did not embark upon in 2020.”

This poor attempt at calumny by that report, according to the statement by PenCom has further exposed the falsehood in the said story as everyone hitherto is aware of what happened in year 2020 following the global lockdown in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic during which international travels were restricted.

“Offices were shut down and most people had to hold virtual meetings. It is, thus, most outlandish to suggest
that any government agency would claim to be paying allowances to its officials for international travels when most airports were shut down globally.

“More so, official foreign trips require strict documentation, including air tickets, stamped passport pages and evidence of number of days spent. Rates for estacodes are standardised.

“If the DG were to spend two years abroad without returning to the
country for one day, it would still be impossible for her to claim a million dollars as estacode. The desperate fabricators need to respect the intelligence of Nigerians.”

In the same vein, the statement by PenCom Media Team, “We are aware of current political intrigues in the country caused by the jostling for
appointments, but we believe there are more decent ways of going about it than peddling tales by moonlight and using notorious online outlets to push the lies to unsuspecting readers.

PenCom further said: “The public is implored to ignore these fake documents and the discredited allegations being recycled at the slightest opportunity. The Commission has nothing to hide and will continue to run a transparent and accountable system.”

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