The House of Representatives has
asked the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), Ibrahim Magu to arrest and prosecute the former Chairman of the Pension
Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina.
The lawmakers gave this order in
a letter through the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. M. A. Sani-Omolori.
In the letter, the House urged
EFCC to “immediately arrest the former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team,
Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, for prosecution “in order to serve as deterrent to
others who might have corrupt tendencies”.
“The House of Representatives has
already constituted an Ad-Hoc Committee charged with the responsibility of
investigating the circumstances surrounding the re-surfacing, re-absorbing and
subsequent elevation of Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina from the rank of Assistant
Director (the position he held before he was removed in 2013, to the position
of an Acting Director) and to recommend strong sanctions against any person or
persons who are implicated in the scandal,” it said.
Recall that the EFCC had declared
Maina wanted for his alleged role in the fraudulent biometric contracts through
which he and former Head of Service, Steve Oronsaye and two others allegedly
mismanaged over N2billion of pension funds.
Maina was also on July 21, 2015
charged alongside Oronsaye, Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global
Services Limited before a Federal High Court with a 24-count charge bordering
on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
Oronsaye and two others were in
court and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Maina has been at large.
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