Police operatives attached to the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Alagbon Close, Lagos, are investigating an alleged fresh N20 billion pension scam within the police facility.
The money was said to have got missing under unclear circumstances.
The commencement of the investigation into the allegation started barely a month ago following a two-page petition the police outfit received from a non-governmental organisation, Paths to Nigeria Freedom, headed by Comrade Dandy Eze and other activists.
The petitioner alleged that over time, some individual serving police officers attached to the Police Pension Office reportedly connived to defraud both the government and others of the large sum, which he said was consequently shared.
“They used part of the money to acquire choice properties”, Eze alleged.
Eze, had in his petition to the police high authority listed the names of some of the beneficiaries of the loot and the location of the “choice properties,” calling for painstaking investigation into the matter with the view to ensuring that the illegally siphoned money and proceeds of the alleged crime are returned to government coffers.
He also demanded that the perpetrators of the alleged fraud be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Our correspondent gathered that no sooner had the operatives at Alagbon commenced discreet investigation into the matter than the principal petitioner started to receive threat calls from faceless persons, asking him to withdraw his petition or be summarily dealt with.
According to an impeccable source, “Even the lead police investigator in the matter has not been spared as he was repeatedly told to leave the matter and find something else to do”.
Speaking with our correspondent on the matter last Friday, Eze said, “I wrote the petition to Alagbon with facts and figures. They should allow Alagbon to investigate and come out with their findings. The irony of it all is that some of the principal actors in the scam have been calling me names, threatening fire and brimstone. They are doing this in an apparent move to cow me. Unfortunately, I will not back down. Nobody can intimidate me. If the people that are being paid tax-payers money to maintain law and order are now hands-in-glove with criminals, I think the society should do something fast.
“You see, I cannot be intimidated. It is my civic responsibility to expose evil and evil people in the society .Nigeria can only move forward if we all play our civic roles/ responsibilities”.
Meanwhile, investigation into the scam is on-going
I wrote the petition to Alagbon with facts and figures. They should allow Alagbon to investigate and come out with their findings
