Maina seeks review of charges against him

TRACKING____Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, has petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for the review of charges the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed against him.

In a letter by his lawyer, Edwin Inegedu, dated August 31, 2020, Maina urged the AGF to, in the interest of justice, stop his trial.

He also urged Malami to review the files involving him to ensure that his prosecution “is not malicious, mala fide (in bad faith; intended to deceive) and borne out of narrow interests to prevent accountability for the assets kept in the EFCC’s custody”.

The petition added: “It is our further brief that our client’s persecution by the EFCC came to a head under the leadership of Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

“This was principally due to our client’s demand that the EFCC should account for the sums and properties recovered by the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), and kept in the EFCC’s custody.”

Maina alleged that the EFCC mounted a campaign of calumny against him to obfuscate the issues and divert attention from its inability to account for the properties warehoused with the commission.

“It is also pertinent to add that our client has, despite the hordes of persecution and attacks on his person, aided the Federal Government in a further recovery of N1.3 trillion recently.”