Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Nellie Mayshak, has said that the discovery of over 3,000 ghost police pensioners has saved the Federal Government over N100 million monthly. Mayshak, who spoke during a sensitisation workshop in Abuja, said that the directorate saved the Federal Government over N100 million monthly which would have been paid to the ghost pensioners.
The workshop was to sensitise stakeholders, particularly the pensioners, to what they were expected to do to access their entitlements effortlessly. She said: “When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll, it contained 18,000 pensioners, which we thought were all genuine, but when we went around the states to verify, we discovered that there were just 15,000 pensioners in the police. “If we had not made this discovery, we would have been paying pension to those non-existing 3,000 pensioners.”
She advised pensioners to submit their pension records to PTAD so that it could access their liabilities and advise them appropriately. According to her, there are 104,000 pensioners in the civil service, 13,000 in parastatal agencies and 15,000 in the police. She said that and that PTAD was handling the payrolls of 132,000 pensioners from the civil service, parastatal organisations and the police. “PTAD had sensitised pensioners through their unions, radio commercials, newspaper advertisements and text messages, not to pay money to any person before their files could be processed,” she noted.
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