Nigeria. Removal of PenCom Management Team, Intrigues and Legal Questions
Iyobosa Uwugiaren highlights the legal implications of the recent removal of PenCom’s management team by the federal government
The seeming recent political and ethnic scheming that led to the removal of the Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu by President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to produce huge controversy among critical stakeholders in the pension funds administrators (PFA).
The president, last week, announced Alhaji Aliyu Abdulrrahman Dikko as a replacement for Mrs. Anohu-Amazu along with other new management team including Chairman and commissioners.
However, the letters informing Anohu-Amazu and her colleagues—commissioners of their removal were not delivered until Friday April 21, 2017 at about 5pm—-over a week after the announcement on the media.
The manoeuvrings swelled as a result of the disagreement over the alleged raiding of the commission corporate headquarters in Abuja—same day by the State Security Services (SSS). THISDAY gathered that the security operatives had frisked personnel of the PenCom as they were exiting the commission’s headquarters.
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