DG not involved in any fraud, says PenCom

<p>The National Pension Commission has dismissed documents in circulation purporting that its Director-General, Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar, spent millions of dollars on travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>, <p>In a statement, PenCom described said the accusation against the director-general was a figment of the imagination of its promoters.</p>, <p>It maintained that Dahir-Umar could not get the ‘humongous estacodes’ even if she spent two years outside the country.</p>, <p>PenCom said, “Management would like to alert the public to the renewed campaign of outrageous falsehood against the National Pension Commission and its Director-General, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, over some imagined financial impropriety.</p>, <p>“Although the promoters of this fiction went to the extent of manufacturing documents and listing non-existent bank accounts to make the fabrication look real, a fiction remains a fiction and can never become the truth no matter how many times it is repeated and recycled.”</p>, <p>The report alleged that the director-general was paid millions of dollars as a travel allowance for foreign trips she did not embark upon in 2020.</p>