The House of Representatives has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately arrest and prosecute the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina in order to serve as a deterrent to other corrupt elements with similar tendency.
The members were said to be angry with the alleged looting of pension funds running into billions of naira by Maina and his sudden disappearance and questionable reinstatement by the Federal Civil Service.
Contained in its resolution of October 24, 2017, the House’s order followed a motion of urgent national importance moved by Jagaba Adams Jagaba based on the discovery that Maina had been secretly been recalled to his former post in the Ministry of Interior after he had ignored invitations by the National Assembly and the EFCC and escaped from the country to the United Arab Emirates to evade prosecution for economic crime.
The resolution marked NASS/CAN/105/Vol.23/154 and dated November 7, 2017, was formally conveyed to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. M. A. Sani- Omolori.
Besides, the House of Reps has 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.”
Maina, who is the subject of investigation for alleged pension fraud, slipped into the country a few months ago and was shockingly re-absorbed into the civil service and promoted acting director despite being on the wanted list of the EFCC.
Maina, who has gone underground to avoid arrest, has not been seen in public since an online media published news of his dubious reinstatement into the public service.
