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KEHINDE AKINTOLA
Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other
Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has declared ICPC’s resolve to
partner with the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD),
in the bid to curtail the activities of pension fraudsters.
Owasanoye gave the assurance during an interactive session with Sharon
Ikeazor, PTAD Executive Secretary held at the ICPC headquarters in
Abuja, recently.
The ICPC Chairman revealed that one of the innovations of the
Commission since his assumption of office was the putting up of
information on the Commission’s website to serve as a guide to the
public on the kinds of matters that should be reported to it, so that
some of the issues that are supposed to be handled by PTAD go to them
directly via a link to their website.
He explained that by clicking on the petition dropdown menu of ICPC’s
website, PTAD is one of the links displayed which the public could use
to send petitions, complaints or comments on petition matters directly
to them.
He expressed his concern that pension phone scam – a type of pension
fraud perpetrated through the use of mobile phones – had become a very
big challenge to the society, and that he would, therefore, like ICPC
and PTAD to really work hard together to tackle the menace.
Earlier in her remarks, the Executive Secretary of PTAD, had stated
that the essence of the visit to ICPC was to share ideas and express
some of her agency’s concerns in terms of the fraud that they come
across in the discharge of their duties, perpetrated by fraudsters,
and sometimes by the pensioners themselves or their next-of-kin.
Ikeazor praised ICPC for its unflinching support during field
verification exercises. ”Ever since my assumption of office, each time
we go for field verification, I always request from ICPC to have your
operatives present to monitor us and at the same time monitor and curb
the fraudsters and I would say it has been a fruitful partnership,”
she said.
BADEJO ADEMUYIWA has 23 years experience as a Finance Writer, specialising in Insurance and Investigative Reporting.
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