EFCC Charges Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, and his 20 Years Old Son to Court.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, and his son, Faisal, with various offences before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Maina and his 20-year-old son would be arraigned before Justice Okon Abang on Friday.

EFCC will arraign him on 12-count charges, bothering on money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud. Also to be arraigned same day, in same court on a separate but similar charge is his son, Faisal.

Maina and his son were, on September 30, 2019, arrested at an Abuja hotel by the Department of State Services who subsequently handed them over to the EFCC on October 2 for further investigation and prosecution of allegations of fraud and money laundering to the tune of N2.1bn. When Maina was arrested his son pulled a gun at the security operatives to prevent his father from being arrested. Before he was arrested by the DSS, Maina had evaded arrest for over four (4) years.

The EFCC, on October 7, obtained an order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Bwari, Abuja, to keep Maina and his son in custody for an initial period of 14 days.

Maina’s name was mentioned as an accomplice who was at large but not charged as a co-defendant in the case of 24 counts bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence, instituted before the Federal High Court in Abuja in July 2015, against a former Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, Osarenkhoe Afe, Fredrick Hamilton and Global Services Limited.