An Analysis of Police Pension Fraud and the Future of Pension Administration in Nigeria

• Published in: Kuwait chapter of Arabian journal of business & management review Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 495 - 513
• Main Authors: Uche , Okala A, Eme , Okechukwu Innocent, Uche , Ijeoma B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kuwait - Kuwait American University 01.09.2014; Sohar University, Oman and American University of Kuwait
• Subjects: Biometrics; Congressional committees; CORPORATE CORRUPTION; Corruption; Corruption in government; Criminal investigations; Embezzlement; Expenditures; Fraud; Looting; NIGERIA; Pension funds; PENSIONS; POLICE; Public administration; Public officials; Reforms; Retirees; RETIREMENT; Task forces; Trials; التقاعد; الشرطة; الفساد في المؤسسات; معاشات التقاعد; نيجيريا; Nigeria
• ISSN: 2224-8358; 2224-8358
• DOI: 10.12816/0018930

Corruption in Nigeria has festered and irredeemably so due in part to the virtual non-existence of institutional mechanisms for ensuring that the machinery of governance and public administration are not unduly distorted or diverted to the satisfaction of egotistical and parochial interests. Nigeria's public service is saddled with a bureaucratic arrangement that is notoriously over-bloated, yet it is always easy for particular officials or civil servants to hijack the paraphernalia of public service and deploy same in the service of amoral designs. This paper examines the police pension scam that was investigated by the Nigerian Senate. It explores the background information to the scam, the investigations and findings. The paper concludes by positing that the scam is a blatant indication of the porosity of the county's institutions and the weakness of its statutory processes for the public officers indicted in the pension probe to have found the latitude to flirt with such stupendous sums of money without any institutional inhibition.