The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has refuted the circulation of documents claiming that its Director-General, Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar, spent exorbitant amounts on travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a statement, PenCom dismissed the accusations as a mere fabrication without any basis in reality.

PenCom clarified that the claims of Dahir-Umar receiving huge estacodes for extended periods of travel are entirely unfounded, and she could not have received such excessive allowances even if she had spent two years abroad.

The commission further highlighted that the promoters of these false allegations went to great lengths to create misleading documents and even listed nonexistent bank accounts to lend credibility to their fiction.

Nonetheless, PenCom emphasized that regardless of how many times these falsehoods are repeated and recycled, they will remain just that – falsehoods.

The report had alleged that the director-general received millions of dollars in travel allowances for foreign trips that she did not undertake in 2020.