{"id":184264,"date":"2024-11-09T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-governor-vows-to-prosecute-civil-servants-involved-in-pension-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:33:20","slug":"nigerian-governor-vows-to-prosecute-civil-servants-involved-in-pension-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-governor-vows-to-prosecute-civil-servants-involved-in-pension-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Governor Vows to Prosecute Civil Servants Involved in Pension Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>&#8220;We have zero tolerance for corruption. Once we got convincing information, we had to arrest the people involved.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Governor Alex Otti has vowed that anybody implicated in the mismanagement or theft of pension funds in the state will face prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Mr Otti made the remark on Thursday night during the November edition of the monthly media briefing at the Government House, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/sports\/football\/751278-npfl-preview-oriental-derby-in-umuahia-two-northern-derbies-as-rangers-aim-for-recovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Umuahia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">He said that recent investigations revealed some civil servants were involved in pension fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He said that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have zero tolerance for corruption. Once we got convincing information, we had to arrest the people involved.&#8221; Governor Alex Otti has vowed that anybody implicated in the mismanagement or theft of pension funds in the state will face prosecution. Mr Otti made the remark on Thursday night during the November edition of the monthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8227,8666,4269,9681,257,393,482,8450,16592,13295,254,9639],"class_list":["post-184264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civil","tag-fraud","tag-governor","tag-involved","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-pension","tag-prosecute","tag-servants","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vows"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}