EFCC Declares Abdulrasheed Maina Wanted

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has declared Abdulrasheed Maina, the former
chairman of the Presidential Task team on Pension
Matters, wanted.

Abdulrasheed Maina, a former Chairman of the
Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT)
Premium Times reports that Maina is wanted for his
role in the fraudulent biometric contracts through which
he, Steve Oronsaye, former head of service, and two
others allegedly stole over N2billion of pension funds.

Confirming the move, Wilson Uwujaren, the
spokesperson of the EFCC, revealed that the anti-
graft agency had have already secured an arrest
warrant against the former pension boss. He added that
the warrant would enable the commission to arrest
Maina “wherever he is in the world”.

On July 21, Maina was charged alongside Oronsaye,
Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global
Services Limited before a Federal High Court on a
24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and
obtaining by false pretence.

According to Sahara Reporters, while Oronsaye and
two others were in court and pleaded not guilty, Maina
had been at large.

On July 21, the court heard the bail applications of the
accused. Speaking through his counsel, Esther Uzoma,
Maina explained that he was not at large because the
EFCC had never invited him.

Rotimi Jacobs, the EFCC counsel, pleaded with the
court to prevail on the accused’s counsel to produce
Maina in court as the commission knew nothing about
his whereabouts. However, Maina continued to shun
court proceedings; therefore, the EFCC had no other
option than to declare him wanted.

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