Pension funds deducted but not remitted to pension fund administrators have been saved in an alternative Sterling bank account after an order was secured from the State House of Assembly instructing the stoppage of the deduction.
Panelists at the thunder blowers TV programme Tirka Tirka agreed to this declaration on Sunday while explaining issues related to crises in contributory pension deduction.
The panelists are Mansur Mustapha Kaura who is the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, Yusuf Abdullahi Bakura a permanent Secretary office of the head of service, Comrade Bitrus D. Gyang and Comrade Abdullahi Umar Modomawa a former NLC Chairman in the state.
The reasons advanced for the opening of the alternative account to domicile the fund was simply to secure the money from allegedly being mismanaged by the immediate past government of Abdulazeez Yari since the recovery was made toward the end of his tenure.
It was also confirmed that, the signatories of the accounts included a representative of the office of the head of service of Zamfara, and representatives of the two labour unions namely NLC and TUC.
Permanent Secretary office of the Head of Service Alh Yusuf Abdullahi Bakura said the decision was in the best interest of protecting the savings of the state civil servants.
Giving the breakdown of the fund saved in the account, the panelists agreed that, State Universal Basic Education Board has the largest shares of about N700 million naira while the rest of the state government agencies saved over 200 million naira.
But it was not clear where the savings of the Mass Education Commission and Yariman Bakura Specialists Hospitals was domiciled.
