Acting Chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said the
agency intends to visit Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United
States of America and the United Kingdom (UK), in a bid to fish out former
chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), AbdulRasheed Maina.
Magu also
said on a television programme monitored in Lagos yesterday, that Maina has, so
far, escaped arrest, because powerful Nigerians are shielding him from justice.
The EFCC boss did not, however, disclose the identity of the persons allegedly
protecting Maina but absolved the agency of any blame in connection to Maina’s
initial escape from the country.
In 2013,
Maina fled the country after the EFCC declared him wanted over alleged pension
fraud to the tune of $2 billion.
The former
pension boss returned to the country and was reinstated as a director in the
Ministry of Interior.
President
Muhammadu Buhari ordered his immediate dismissal and ordered the Head of Civil
Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita to investigate the
circumstances which surrounded Maina’s return and reinstatement.
Regardless,
Magu described Maina’s reinstatement as “devastating and that the EFCC would
not spare anyone involved in it.
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