EFCC storms Maina’s $2m mansion in Abuja

Mobile police officers attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday stormed one of the mansions belonging to embattled civil servant, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was sacked recently by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered his sack and called for an investigation into how he was recalled into the civil service despite being on the wanted list of the EFCC. Maina, who headed the controversial Presidential Pension Task Team under President Goodluck Jonathan, was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged looting of pension funds running into hundreds of millions of Naira but he fled the country to the United Arab Emirates since 2013 to avoid arrest and prosecution.

In the aftermath of his actions, he was formally sacked from his post as an Assistant Director in the Ministry of Interior in 2013 from where he was seconded to handle the PTTPR by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012. Maina, who hails from Borno State and is reportedly said to be a high net worth person, is believed to have the ears of top government officials in Nigeria and beyond.

His disappearance from the country and refusal to honour police and National Assembly’s invitation to shed light on the missing pension funds, forced the EFCC to formally declare him wanted and his name forwarded to Interpol for interdiction. However, in bizarre circumstance now causing ripples and anger in government and civil society circles in Nigeria, the Presidency inexplicably ordered the reinstatement of Maina and the Head of Service of the Federation on October 2, 2017 carried out the directive returning the wanted man to the Ministry of Interior as an Acting Director in charge of Human Resources.

The Presidency is said to have ordered the reinstatement of Maina despite his status as a fugitive wanted by the EFCC based on the legal advice of the Federal Ministry of Justice, which argued that since the wanted man had not been convicted by any known court in Nigeria, he could be returned to his post quietly. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has launched a fresh manhunt for a former head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

Apparently embarrassed that the fugitive has been shamelessly been returned to his ministry, the Minister of Interior, Abdurahman Dambazau, yesterday washed off his hands over Maina’s reinstatement and claimed it was the office of the Head of Service of the Federation that handled the matter. The October 2 letter claimed that Mr. Maina’s case was reviewed and that a decision was taken that he be reinstated. But the Spokesman for the Attorney General of the Federation, Salihu Othman, said he was not aware of Malami’s involvement in the recall saga.

But seriously disappointed by the action of the HoS over the recall saga, the EFCC yesterday launched a fresh bid to apprehend Maina and bring him to justice despite the failure of both the Interpol and the Nigerian Police Force’s failure to track him down. The EFCC is said to have deployed its crack operatives to hunt for Maina within and outside Nigeria with a view to bringing him to justice, an action, which is believed to be clandestinely pposed by some powerful forces in the presidency.

The commission on Sunday convened an emergency strategy meeting to deliberate on the shocking and embaraassing development and get Maina tracked down even though the Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, was reported to be away from town. “We are looking for Maina everywhere and we will certainly get him and bring him to account for his action,” an EFCC top source confirmed last night to one of our correspondents in Abuja. Contacted last night, EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that Maina remains a wanted man on the commission’s list and that they were still looking for him despite the claim that he had been pardoned and recalled by the HoS. “We are on the trail of Maina, whom we declared wanted and the situation has not changed as we speak,” Wilson said last night

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Nonsensical.

[/b]"We are looking for Maina everywhere and we will certainly get him and bring him to account for his action, an EFCC top source confirmed last night to one of our correspondents in Abuja."[b]
So all this while EFCC have been sleeping with a fugitive on their wanted list while the fella was enjoying DSS and police protection but suddenly remembers he has properties everywhere and fat bank accounts?
Pls continue the comical show.Zombies are watching.

Nonsense. Mtchew

Storm ko, hurricane ni... So dey knew his house all along abi.. Make dem dey deceive d ppl dey want to deceive. Looks like sense is starting to fall on d poster above

rada rada


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