Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi chapter, Adamawa State, has urged the Federal Government to constitute panel to investigate alleged non-remittance of staff pension contributions by the institution’s management.
Chairman of the Union, Comrade Kadala Solomon Bandi, made the call at a press conference held in Mubi on Thursday, where he demanded forensic audit and constitution of verification panel by the Federal Ministry of Education and National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to look in to the pension issue.
Bandi, who stressed the need for urgent intervention, lamented that the non-remittance of staff pension contributions had spanned up to ten years under successive administrations of the institution.
He stated that the failure to remit pension deductions to the Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) and the National Pension Commission (PenCom) constituted a violation of the Pension Reform Act 2014.