An Abuja High Court has ordered the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to remand former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team Abdulrasheed Maina in the Nigerian Correctional Service‘s centre pending the determination of the case.
Justice Okon Abang, who gave the directive, adjourned the matter till October 30th for commencement of trial.
Maina’s son, Faisal, is also being arraigned in the same court on a separate but similar charge. Faisal’s case is yet to be called as at the time of sending this report.
The anti-graft agency is arraigning the former pension task team chairman on a 12-count charge bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud.
The development is coming after Folashade Ogunbanjo, a judge, ordered the forfeiture of 23 property linked to him.
In same vein, another Abuja Court has ordered the EFCC to keep Faisal Maina in police custody, pending the determination of the case before it.
Justice Okon Abang, who gave the order adjourned the matter until November 6th for trial.
