N2BN FRAUD: MAINA AT LARGE
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he embattled
ex-chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed
Maina, who has been accused of complicity in a N2bn fraud, has gone into hiding.
The fugitive,
who is still on the wanted list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
for the alleged offence, went into hiding soon after news that the anti-graft
agency had launched a manhunt for him became public.
One of our
correspondents gathered that Maina, who had been reinstated as an acting
director in the Ministry of Interior, was to meet with yet to be identified
persons in his office but apparently had a change of heart because he was
nowhere near the office building when our reporter arrived at the office at
8.20am and at 2.00pm when he left.
The office
located at the Old Secretariat in Area 1, consists of a reception, a waiting
room before a massive door leading up to the director’s office.
The reception
looked dreary while two young men in the waiting room fiddled with their phones
as they conversed in low tones. Attempts to speak with the female secretary,
who refused to give her name, failed as she rebuffed all questions.
In response to
enquiries about the whereabouts of her new boss, she snapped, “I don’t know
where he is.”
A source, who
spoke to one of our correspondents, in confidence because of the sensitivity of
the matter, said Maina travelled to Kano during the weekend and had given
appointments to some persons to meet him at the office on Monday but went into
hiding soon afterwards.
The source
said, “He planned to meet with some visitors in his office on Monday but for
him to have aborted the appointment and switched off his phones meant he had
gone underground. He may not be seen for a little while. READ MORE
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