Mr Abdulrasheed Maina former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, was sentenced to eight years in prison for money laundering two days ago at a federal high court in Abuja. His case which began around 2017 has been an interesting one with intrigues here and there.

Normally such judgement should bring greater optimism to the fight against corruption, but it is far from it.

Why was Maina caught? Did he step on big toes? Is he just unlucky? No! Corruption often finds a way. Someone who is alleged to have paid $3.4 million in cash for a house should know his way around the system. Or is it because he touched blood money? Pension money is blood money because it is meant for retirees who might have nothing to live on than their pensions. There have been many instances of pensioners who died in the difficult process of accessing their rightful pensions. https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/why-maina-was-singled-out/

Nothing is special about him being caught. He is not the first neither will he be the last to be sent to jail for stealing pension funds. The major reason why former IG Tarfa Balogun was disgraced and sent to jail was for stealing police pension funds yet Alhaji Tarfa could have easily escaped detection as a sitting IG and senior cop.
I hope others hoping to steal will learn from the disgraceful way their public service career ended