PENCOM DG’s absence at budget defence due to exigencies of duty – Statement

The National Pension Commission (PenCom)has explained that the absence of the Director General at the Commission’s 2021/2022 Budget defence and presentation of the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) was due to exigencies of duty.

The commission in a statement signed by its management noted that “the DG’s absence was because she was out of town attending an official engagement.

However, the Commissioner of Finance, the Director and Head of Accounts and the Deputy Director and Head of Financial Planning represented her, which is the usual practice whenever the DG is unavailable.

“The Director General takes invitations from the National Assembly seriously and ensures that she attends personally except when the exigencies of her office make it impossible, in which case the relevant Commissioner and Management staff of the Commission represent her”.

At the hearing, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Hon Saidu Abdullahi, who had earlier frowned at the absence of the Commission’s Director-General, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, PenCom, however expressed satisfaction on the quality and comprehensiveness of the reports submitted to it by the Commission.

Hauwa Abu