VANDAL CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER COLLAPSED TRANSMISSION TOWER IN DELTA STATE. (PHOTO).
VANDAL CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER COLLAPSED TRANSMISSION TOWER IN DELTA STATE A suspected vandal has been crushed to death under a collapsed vandalised transmission tower along the 330kV Ughelli-Benin transmission line in Delta State. The incident was discovered during a line patrol carried out by the Delta Sub-Region, Lines Maintenance Department of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), following the tripping of the line on earth fault on the Ughelli - Benin 330kV Transmission line. A statement by the TCN indicates that the patrol team traced the fault to Tower 101, which had collapsed. The body of the suspected vandal was found crushed between the tower members. Tower 101 on the adjacent Ughelli - Sapele 330kV transmission line had also been vandalized.
According to the Director General of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate {PTAD}Nellie Mayshak,said they have discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme.She made the disclosure at a two day sensitisation workshop in Abuja yesterday thursday saying ''When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll,it contained 18,000 pensioners which we thought were all genuine.But when we went around the states to verify,we discovered that there were 15,000 pensioners in the police.If we had not made this discovery,we would have been paying pension to these non-existing 3,000 pensioners''.She said that the diectorate saved the Federal Government more than N100 million monthly which would have been paid to the ghost pensioners.She said PTAD was partnering with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC} and Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission {ICPC} to ensure that pension fraudsters were eliminated in the system.She advised further that Pensioners are to submit their pension records to PTAD so that it could access their liabilities and advise them appropriately.
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