PENSION MAFIA
THE PENSION MAFIA: PERSPECTIVE OF A PENSIONER. The pension matters came to a head, creating a historic mafia in Nigeria that surpasses the original Italian mafia in scope and drama. The pension mafia is one out of many such mafia groups that emerged in Nigeria in the last two decades which coincided with our return to democracy; 1999 to date. During the military regimes pension matter was not subjected to the massive abuse and bastardisation witnessed in the last two decades. One can safely concludes that the coming on board of the legislators in democracy exacerbated the corruption witnessed and perpetrated in the pension pay points, especially the Head of service of the federation office, the police pension office and the military pension. The payment of core civil servants pension in the Head of Service office, I believe, was as a consequence of the 'inefficient and corrupt' handling by the then ministries and agencies who were paying. The Head of service office became wor