Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,150,843 members, 7,810,253 topics. Date: Saturday, 27 April 2024 at 02:33 AM

Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna (1356 Views)

AbdulRashid Maina: EFCC Arrests Former Pension Reform Chairman / Why We Reinstated Abdulrasheed Maina, Fugitive Ex-Pension Chief – FG / Buhari Administration Recalls Abdulrasheed Maina, Wanted Ex-Pension Boss Sacked (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply) (Go Down)

Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by arabbunkum: 3:14pm On Oct 24, 2017
The Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been traced to Kaduna by the EFCC, sources.

An operative of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), says he spent the weekend at an hotel in the state, according to The Punch.

The source added that he is under the protection of the DSS.

“We have traced him to a hotel in Kaduna where he went to spend the weekend; we know that the DSS is protecting him and the DG DSS, deployed men to protect him. But make no mistake, we will arrest him, already we’ve frozen all his accounts.”

Another source said, “He stays in a property which is a DSS safe house. He moves around in a convoy of about two or three vehicles. I personally saw him alighting from a Range Rover SUV last week with about four DSS officials.”

Maina is wanted by the EFCC for perpetrating numerous frauds.
Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by arabbunkum: 3:20pm On Oct 24, 2017

2 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by NigerDeltan(m): 3:22pm On Oct 24, 2017
grin

At this rate, Sanni Ademola Abacha was a saint

We miss him

7 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by SalamRushdie: 3:23pm On Oct 24, 2017
How many govts are even operating inside the Buhari govt because the govt says one thing some powers are obviously doing another ..It time for the National Assembly to do a national duty by impeaching Buhari to save Nigeria from further destruction and suffering ..this is becoming to embarassing

2 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Desyner: 3:24pm On Oct 24, 2017
That's Naija for you. If you know the owners of Nigeria well, they protect you to the fullest. I am sure he is going to beat it again. Just watch it.

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Paperwhite(m): 3:26pm On Oct 24, 2017
shocked What beats imagination is how this man entered into Nigeria,lobbied his way back to the civil service only for Buhari government to start all these dramatization. Anyway nah them cabal them.What a moral burden on this government.

2 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Desyner: 3:26pm On Oct 24, 2017
SalamRushdie:
How many govts are even operating inside the Buhari govt because the govt says one thing some powers are obviously doing another ..It time for the National Assembly to do a national duty by impeaching Buhari to save Nigeria from further destruction and suffering ..this is becoming to embarassing
Just like that? If Fulanis still carry arms freely, then there must be a way out for one of theirs.

3 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Paperwhite(m): 3:31pm On Oct 24, 2017
SalamRushdie:
How many govts are even operating inside the Buhari govt because the govt says one thing some powers are obviously doing another ..It time for the National Assembly to do a national duty by impeaching Buhari to save Nigeria from further destruction and suffering ..this is becoming to embarassing
That should be the thing now.Useless government angry

2 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by OZAOEKPE(f): 3:31pm On Oct 24, 2017
cheesy According to babajide of journalist hang out a TVC program, Maina was a saint.

Tinubu trying to massage jubrils ego with his station to avoid persecution but the God of Jonathan and Nigerians will not forgive him for the packaged animal he gave Nigerians

4 Likes

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by AmKen(m): 3:57pm On Oct 24, 2017
This further goes to show that PMB is not really the saint people see him as.
His place in corruption is permanently cemented and engraved,
generations unborn will hear about the most trusted but ironically the most corrupt Nigerian.
All round corruption, ethnocentric, nepotic, breach of law and court orders, etc.
The guy pioneering the anti-corruption fight makes me laugh out loud, cos he is no saint either.

5 Likes 1 Share

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Daviddson(m): 4:07pm On Oct 24, 2017
If Buhari wants to make to make a headway & end this four year tenure with his head lifted high, he would have to do away with the likes of Kyari, DSS boss, Malami and the other members of the cabal who're holding him by the jugular These were the same people that freed Saraki with their connections. Malami alone has been very incompetent in running the Justice ministry.

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Alexgeneration(m): 4:53pm On Oct 24, 2017
DSS protection? What kind of country protects a wanted criminal? This administration is devilish, full of bigots and daft imbeciles. They reek of all round corruption, nepotism and maladminiatration. Zoo indeed.

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Nobody: 4:56pm On Oct 24, 2017
NigerDeltan:
grin

At this rate, Sanni Ademola Abacha was a saint

We miss him

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Nobody: 4:56pm On Oct 24, 2017
AmKen:
This further goes to show that PMB is not really the saint people see him as.
His place in corruption is permanently cemented and engraved,
generations unborn will hear about the most trusted but ironically the most corrupt Nigerian.
All round corruption, ethnocentric, nepotic, breach of law and court orders, etc.
The guy pioneering the anti-corruption fight makes me laugh out loud, cos he is no saint either.

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by Nobody: 4:57pm On Oct 24, 2017

1 Like

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by vedaxcool(m): 5:33pm On Oct 24, 2017
De javu

2iic:
The Presidency on Thursday said President Goodluck Jonathan could not sack the Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said Maina is a civil servant and that his fate could only be decided according to the civil service procedure.

Another spokesman for Jonathan, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said the Presidency had referred Maina’s case to the Office of Head of Service of the Federation.

Also on Thursday, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, said Maina was still on the run.

The Senate had on Wednesday gave Jonathan a two-day ultimatum within which to sack the PRTT boss from the Federal Civil Service.

The upper legislative chamber said Jonathan would need to choose between the Senate and Maina, threatening that the legislature had teeth to bite.

“The executive has to choose between the Senate and Maina. He has crucified himself. If Maina remains, then the Senate would react appropriately,” Senate President, David Mark, had said after a debate on a motion entitled, “Dismissal of Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina for refusal to appear before the Senate.”

The debate was sponsored by the Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), and 107 senators, urging Jonathan to sack Maina from the public service. The Senate has 109 members.

The two-day ultimatum ends on Friday (today).

But Abati said Jonathan did not possess the power to personally discipline civil servants.

He said, “Maina is a civil servant. If he has done something that amounts to a breach of civil service rule, the appropriate office to do the right thing and ensure that due process is followed is the office of the Head of Service of the Federation.”

The presidential spokesman said that Jonathan believed in due process.

“There are laid down procedures for handling situations like this. The President believes in due process. We don’t have to worry ourselves. It is a matter for the civil service to handle. The President does not have to be disciplining civil servants personally,” adding, “Nobody should suggest that the President is backing Maina. It is not an issue for the President.”

Abati however acknowledged that the Senate had constitutional right to summon anybody and the right to declare such a person wanted if he failed to appear before the lawmakers.

He said only the Head of Service of the Federation, Isa Saleh, could take any action on Maina.

Abati said, “The Senate has constitutional power to summon anybody. If such a person fails to appear before them, the lawmakers are also empowered to issue a warrant of arrest against the person.

“The President has not in any way stood in the way of the Senate in inviting Maina. You will recall that the police even declared him wanted.”

Okupe however told journalists in Abuja, “The relationship with the leadership of the Senate and the President of the Senate is such that cannot be tampered with on the altar of favouritism to anybody.

“The President and the Presidency hold the leadership of the Senate in highest esteem and will not do anything to spoil that relationship.

“The issue of Maina has been referred to the head of service.

“Maina is a civil servant and I believe that the matter will be thoroughly investigated and disciplinary action will be effected.”

But the IG explained that the pension task force boss was still on the run and that the police were ready to execute the warrant for his arrest. He called on the public to avail the Police with useful information that could lead to his arrest.

The Senate had on Wednesday summoned Abubakar over his refusal to apprehend Maina.

But the IG, who spoke through the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, in Abuja on Thursday, said the police had yet to arrest Maina because he was in hiding.

Abubakar denied that Maina had police guards.

He said, “If you are
He said, “If you are conversant with policing tradition, you will understand that the declaration of any person wanted is usually necessitated by a need. In this instance, he (Maina) was declared wanted because he went into hiding and made it difficult for the force to execute a warrant of arrest that was legitimately issued.

“And the Nigeria Police Force remains irrevocably committed to finding him and as soon as we lay our hands on him, we will arrest him and take him before the Senate as has been mandated in that warrant of arrest.”

On allegation that Maina was still having policemen guarding him, the IG said, “Maina has no police officer in his entourage to the best of my knowledge. And again media practitioners are responsible members of the society and even in that declaration and in the press release that we issued declaring Maina a wanted man, we did say that if any citizen that has information that could help us in executing that order, the person should please pass that information to the appropriate authority. So if you have information that could help us in executing this warrant of arrest, we will be glad to receive it from you.”

Meanwhile, civil rights groups on Thursday berated the Presidency in its handling of the controversy surrounding the PRTT boss.

The groups, including the Campaign for Democracy and the Anti-Corruption Coalition of Nigeria, accused the Presidency of shielding the embattled pension task force chairman.

The Executive Secretary of ACCN, Mr. Dino Melaye, said, “It is obvious that the Presidency is shielding Maina. This government is the promoter of corruption and corrupt persons. Obviously Maina did not steal alone; he has police, SSS following him everywhere.

“A sincere government would have sacked or suspend him since. This government is growing from being a weak government to becoming a wicked government. Let us see what the President will do on this.

“It is only thieves without presidential connections who fear the law in Nigeria,” the CD President, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said in her reaction to the Maina issue. http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-cant-sack-maina-presidency/


An idiot in this thread is calling God of Jonathan like Jonathan has any speck of morality with him
Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by NigerDeltan(m): 5:57pm On Oct 24, 2017
vedaxcool:
De javu




An idiot in this thread is calling God of Jonathan like Jonathan has any speck of morality with him

Lol..e pain am

At the end Jonathan sacked him, but your Buhari with some avalanche of morality brought him back through the back door unknown to him that social media is more powerful than any president of a country

2 Likes 1 Share

Re: Wanted Ex Pension Reform Boss, Maina, Under DSS Protection In Kaduna by vedaxcool(m): 6:34pm On Oct 24, 2017
[s]
NigerDeltan:


Lol..e pain am

At the end Jonathan sacked him, but your Buhari with some avalanche of morality brought him back through the back door unknown to him that social media is more powerful than any president of a country

[/s]

I feel your pain. Jonathan obviously didn't sack him as he claimed he didn't have the powers to sack him. Truth is Jonathan and his henchmen were involved and hence lacked the morality to prosecute him instead he protected him.

(1) (Reply)

LASG Unveils Iconic "Fish" Statue At Lekki- Epe T- Junction In Epe (photos) / General Muhammadu Buhari Overthrown President Shagari- Dec 31 1983 / We Are Finish If Will Fail To Win 2019 Rivers Guber

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 33
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.