The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has not applied to the International
Police for the arrest of fleeing former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team
on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina.
It
was gathered on Saturday in Abuja that the anti-graft commission had not made a
formal request to the Nigerian bureau of the INTERPOL for the fugitive to be
placed on the agency’s wanted list.
A
highly-placed source explained that Maina had not been declared wanted because
no agency had made a formal request to the INTERPOL on the issue.
A
check on the INTERPOL website also showed that the former pension reform
chairman had not been placed on the wanted list of the international agency.
This
is coming almost a month after the Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, claimed that INTERPOL had issued a fresh
warrant for the arrest of the embattled director.
He
had told The Punch on October 26, 2017 that “Maina’s
investigation has been expanded.”
“This
is beyond reinstatement. It has gone beyond that. You know that the INTERPOL
has just issued an international warrant on him. A Nigerian court has also
issued yet another warrant of arrest,” he had said.
But
sources said the EFCC might not be keen on arresting Maina, which is behind its
reluctance to re-apply for him to be placed on the wanted list.
“From
the look of things, the EFCC or those in government are not keen on arresting
Maina and that is why no formal request for his arrest had been made to the
National Central Bureau of the INTERPOL,” a source explained.
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