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Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for refusing to honour repeated invitations by the Commission since 2015.
Maina was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as Chairman of the task force in 2010 to check the corruption in the country’s pension system.
In 2012, he was accused by the police of misappropriating N100 billion pension funds in connivance with others.
Maina was arraigned in absentia by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which declared him wanted in 2015.
His offences ranging from;
1. allegations of stealing, misappropriation of public funds, and money laundering.
2. misappropriating N100 billion pension funds
3. Steve Oronsaye, former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, and Maina are alleged to have colluded with Osarenkhole Afe, a consultant who worked with the Task Team and the office of the Head of Service, to allegedly syphon over a billion naira from pension funds using front companies.
4. They were alleged to have awarded bogus contracts running into billions of naira for biometric enrollment of pensioners across; the country to companies owned by their aides, friends and cronies
5. Based on the allegation of corruption, Mr. Maina was invited by the Senate Joint Committee on Public Service and Establishment and State and Local Government Administration.
The Senate after completion of its investigation issued a Warrant of Arrest against Mr. Maina.
6. Ignoring the panel, Mr. Maina went ahead to sue the Senate and the then Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and thereafter went into hiding after being declared wanted by the police.
7. Consequent upon this, Mr. Maina was dismissed by the Head of Service for allegedly absconding from duty and attempting to evade arrest and charged to court.
8. He was on July 21, 2015 charged by the EFCC alongside Stephen Oronsaye and two others before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
While Mr. Oronsaye and the two other accused were in court and pleaded not guilty to the charge, Mr. Maina was at large.
9. Mr. Maina is said to have spent past years in the United Arab Emirates, from where he kept lobbying and won pleasure of the Buhari administration.
Maina was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as Chairman of the task force in 2010 to check the corruption in the country’s pension system.
In 2012, he was accused by the police of misappropriating N100 billion pension funds in connivance with others.
Maina was arraigned in absentia by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which declared him wanted in 2015.
His offences ranging from;
1. allegations of stealing, misappropriation of public funds, and money laundering.
2. misappropriating N100 billion pension funds
3. Steve Oronsaye, former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, and Maina are alleged to have colluded with Osarenkhole Afe, a consultant who worked with the Task Team and the office of the Head of Service, to allegedly syphon over a billion naira from pension funds using front companies.
4. They were alleged to have awarded bogus contracts running into billions of naira for biometric enrollment of pensioners across; the country to companies owned by their aides, friends and cronies
5. Based on the allegation of corruption, Mr. Maina was invited by the Senate Joint Committee on Public Service and Establishment and State and Local Government Administration.
The Senate after completion of its investigation issued a Warrant of Arrest against Mr. Maina.
6. Ignoring the panel, Mr. Maina went ahead to sue the Senate and the then Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and thereafter went into hiding after being declared wanted by the police.
7. Consequent upon this, Mr. Maina was dismissed by the Head of Service for allegedly absconding from duty and attempting to evade arrest and charged to court.
8. He was on July 21, 2015 charged by the EFCC alongside Stephen Oronsaye and two others before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
While Mr. Oronsaye and the two other accused were in court and pleaded not guilty to the charge, Mr. Maina was at large.
9. Mr. Maina is said to have spent past years in the United Arab Emirates, from where he kept lobbying and won pleasure of the Buhari administration.
