Nigeria: N17bn Pension Fraud - Arrest, Prosecute Maina Now, Reps Order EFCC

14 November 2017

Abuja — Angered by alleged looting of pension fund running into billions of naira by former Chairman of Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, and his disappearance and questionable reinstatement, the House of Representatives has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately arrest and prosecute him to serve as deterrent to other corrupt elements with similar tendency.

The House's order, which is contained in its resolution of October 24, 2017, followed a motion of urgent national importance moved by Jagaba Adams Jagaba based on the discovery that Maina had secretly been recalled to his former post in the Ministry of Interior after he had ignored the National Assembly and the EFCC and escaped from the country to the United Arab Emirate to evade prosecution for economic crime.

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