Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS), once made curious huge cash transfers into a bank account associated with a former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, PREMIUM TIMES can report.

The uncovering of the payments, investigators say, suggests Mr. Maina and the security agency had been in an unholy relationship for a while.

On Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported how Mr. Maina received security protection from operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the SSS who also allegedly provided a hideout for him.

Mr. Maina is on the run following moves by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to charge him to court for alleged N2 billion fraud.

As exclusively reported by this newspaper two years ago, Mr. Maina has a history of using bankers and other intermediaries to launder most of the money he allegedly embezzled from the pension funds.

Sometimes in 2011, while serving as chairman of the pension task force, Mr. Maina, using his banker sibling, Khalid Ali Biu, opened a corporate bank account in the name of Cluster Logistics Limited domiciled at Fidelity Bank.

Mr. Biu, who was a staff of the bank, was both the bank’s account officer as well as a director of the fictitious company, according to bank and company registration documents sighted by this newspaper.

Bank papers, including mandate card for the Cluster Logistics account also identified Mr. Maina as a signatory to the account.

Investigators said the account had over N500 million cash inflow that were mostly cash deposits made between 2011 and 2013.

Withdrawals from the accounts were also largely in cash. Some of the money, according to investigators, were also changed into dollars.

Curiously, however, among deposits into the accounts were three payments made over a period of one year by no other than the SSS, under its preferred name of Department of State Services (DSS).

Bank documents show that the security outfit paid a total of over N152 million.

The first tranche of over N61 million was paid on November 16, 2011 and the last made on November 14, 2012.

One of the deposits shows that it was made in the name of “DSS Pension Biometrics”.

It is unclear if Cluster Logistics offered any services to the SSS to warrant any payment.

The discovery of the account details, according to a source, “unsettled the SSS despite the EFCC’s effort at downplaying the matter in the spirit of inter-agency esprit de corp.

“Now that the whole case is being revisited it is important for the president to order forensic investigation into the SSS pension department,” he said.

Another EFCC official, who asked not to be named, said before the recent controversy over Mr. Maina’s matter, the commission was already preparing to arraign some of the bankers who aided the dismissed civil servant to allegedly launder billions.

PREMIUM TIMES could not reach SSS for comments on this story Wednesday night. The agency has no official spokesperson.

EFCC’s spokesperson , Wilson Uwujaren, did not respond to multiple telephone calls from this newspaper.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/247302-pension-fraud-sss-paid-n152-million-mainas-secret-account.html/amp

Maina story won't end so soon.
seems that the latest selling news for all the newspapers this week.

Maina maina maina..u guys na only him dey still..well him na celeb at the moment sha

dis Mainagate season film no dey end? lawdy lawdy, oh what a beauty.

So,Maina had the connivance of the DSS,
This man na "senior thief oooo"

And this was the man brought back to deliver CHANGI.
I am waiting for Saint Buhari's word on Malami,Dambazzau and co.

You promised to do better,Buhari....
We screamed our voices out at Jonathan and Odua,which from the look of things is like comparing Ighalo and Messi.(a la Mainagate)
He eventually,bowed to pressure,you promised us change,recruited a 'so-called progressive',topped it with 'a Pastor' and 'angels' it took you 6months to appoint into HEAVEN'S GATE.

I still repeat,that Buhari is complicit with this....the network is too wired for him to be daft.
Bring in a COAS,whose salary bought him houses in Dubai!Imagine
Bring in an EFCC Chairman,who specializes in "jamming"money on the streets,and winning cases on TVC.
Bring in CoS,whose job is to help sanitise MTN and other agencies.
Bring in a SGF,that volunteers to be a "Nebuchadnezzar"
Bring in an IGP,who not only c.reampies for fun but steals and lies.
Bring in an AGF,who equally defends anything corrupt on the book,
Then recruit a 'fugitive'(for the Kano Election),as the "deliverer of change"
Provide him with DSS and Police Protection,I mean,I mean ........
The list is endless......tell me who will expect this kind of failure to become success.
God please,resurrect Ananias and Sapphira........they now have mentors.

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and this is one of our youths, leaders of today I mean tomorrow
.....

Saying Jonathan's men in Buhari's government are responsible is the greatest insult to Nigerians

Now we all know why Lawal Daura's DSS was after Magu.

Na wa

The first tranche of over N61 million was paid on November 16, 2011 and the last made on November 14, 2012.




They will never read. They read headline and reply yet wonder why the country is in this mess.

They wonder why youths can not be trusted with anything serious yet.

fergie001:
So,Maina had the connivance of the DSS,
This man na "senior thief oooo"

And this was the man brought back to deliver CHANGI.
I am waiting for Saint Buhari's word on Malami,Dambazzau and co.

You promised to do better,Buhari....
We screamed our voices out at Jonathan and Odua,which from the look of things is like comparing Ighalo and Messi.(a la Mainagate)
He eventually,bowed to pressure,you promised us change,recruited a 'so-called progressive',topped it with 'a Pastor' and 'angels' it took you 6months to appoint into HEAVEN'S GATE.

I still repeat,that Buhari is complicit with this....the network is too wired for him to be daft.
Bring in a COAS,whose salary bought him houses in Dubai!Imagine
Bring in an EFCC Chairman,who specializes in "jamming"money on the streets,and winning cases on TVC.
Bring in CoS,whose job is to help sanitise MTN and other agencies.
Bring in a SGF,that volunteers to be a "Nebuchadnezzar"
Bring in an IGP,who not only c.reampies for fun but steals and lies.
Bring in an AGF,who equally defends anything corrupt on the book,
Then recruit a 'fugitive'(for the Kano Election),as the "deliverer of change"
Provide him with DSS and Police Protection,I mean,I mean ........
The list is endless......tell me who will expect this kind of failure to become success.
God please,resurrect Ananias and Sapphira........they now have mentors.

The payment into his account was made on 2011 under Jonathan Govt. Please learn to read before making comments.

How buhari reappointed this guy is scary

This is the most corrupt govt in history

Buhari is fighting corruption

hmm

apc = legalised pro-CORRUPTION

What did I do to deserve being born into this circus called Nigeria?

precious1967:
apc = legalised pro-CORRUPTION

Payment was done under GEJ govt. You guys dont read before making comments.

This news has not even been verified and its rushed into front page...This is at best a rumour.

Nobody has confirmed anything. A fool came up with this nonsense to confuse other fools.
Mr A doesn't want to be named, Mr B couldn't be reached for comments...lol.

Sick people...God would punish Buhari for his evils against Nigeria..

Now I know why they called Jonathan "clueless". Because he didn't know how to encourage corruption BRAZENLY. He was a learner in the art of corruption.

Part 3......

Stay tuned.

haba! these people just dey chop naija money anyhow and workers are being owed salaries. na wah o!



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And the same crook was invited by a fellow group of crooks led by Buhari to come back and dine again? You So it was PDP who now re-instate, accommodated, promoted,protected but now provided DSS to help him escape to Niger?
Same person that fled prosecution from the PDP government now found solace with a santimoniously corrupt APC government?

Buhari is a shallow bastard

Bomb

nairavsdollars:
Saying Jonathan's men in Buhari's government are responsible is the greatest insult to Nigerians

You are right, but maina and the SSS have been in a financial relationship from 2011-13

Read the report.

This is a disgrace that he was not jailed