The Department of State Service
(DSS) allegedly paid the sum of N152 million into the bank account of
Abdulrasheed Maina.
Maina, who was the chairman of
the presidential task force on pension reform, is allegedly on the run from the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of N2 billion
fraud.
According to an investigative
report by Premium Times, the SSS and the Nigeria Police Force provided security
for Maina to abscond from the country.
In 2011, while serving as
chairman of the pension task force, Maina allegedly used his banker's younger
brother, Khalid Ali Biu's name to open a corporate bank account in the name of
Cluster Logistics Limited domiciled at Fidelity Bank.
Biu, who was a staff of the bank,
was both the bank’s account officer as well as a director of the alleged
fictitious company, according to bank and company registration documents
sighted by the newspaper.
Bank papers, including mandate
card for the Cluster Logistics account also identified 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.
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.
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.
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If Maina should talk, a whole lot of people would go down.
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