More Troubles For Abdulrasheed Maina As INTERPOL, Court Order His Arrest
The Presidency on Thursday said an Abuja Magistrate’s Court as well as the international police
popularly called the INTERPOL had issued fresh warrants for the arrest of the
embattled former Chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension
Reforms, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent.
Shehu said Maina’s investigation had been extended beyond
his reinstatement and subsequent posting.
He said the investigation would even be extended to some
foreign countries.
The presidential spokesman said, “Maina’s investigation has
been expanded. This is beyond reinstatement. It has gone beyond that.
“You know that the INTERPOL has just issued an international
warrant on him. A Nigerian court has also issued yet another warrant of arrest.
“All those cases involving Steve Oronsaye (former Head of
the Civil Service of the Federation) that are ongoing, you know Maina is also
involved. Law enforcement agencies are looking at that too.
“You are also aware that the Senate is also carrying out its
own investigation on the matter.
“The matter is being investigated from all fronts. The EFCC,
for example, is discovering more and
more properties and its officials are sealing them. They are also looking at
banks and all that.
“In fact, this investigation will also touch some foreign
countries.”
Shehu said the security agencies, including the Attorney
General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), were making presentations to
the President on the matter.
He, however, said the President had yet to say the final
word on the matter because he wanted to be fair to all the reports.
Meanwhile, the Presidency has received a third report on
Maina.
Our correspondent learnt that the third report was prepared
by the Acting Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission.
The report was said to have been submitted to the Chief of
Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
The two reports that have earlier been submitted on the
matter were those of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs.
Winifred Oyo-Ita; and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior.
It was learnt that while Kyari himself wrote the Acting
chairman of the FCSC, Oyo-Ita queried the Permanent Secretary on the matter.
Oyo-Ita, in a telephone interview with our correspondent,
said she submitted her report alongside the one prepared by the Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Interior to Kyari while the Acting FCSC boss submitted
directly to the Chief of Staff.
She insisted that the letter reinstating Maina emanated from
the FCSC and not from her.
She said, “The Chief of Staff to the President wrote
directly to the Acting chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission because
it was the commission that sent out the letter.
“That letter people are saying was from the Office of the
Head of Service did not come from me; it came from the Federal Civil Service
Commission.
“The only persons that responded directly to me is the Permanent
Secretary of the Ministry of Interior.
“I have sent my submission and the response from the
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior to the Chief of Staff.”
When asked what was the update from the Presidency on the
matter, Oyo-Ita directed our correspondent to the presidential spokesmen.
“I am not the right person to ask if there is any update on
it. It is the presidential spokesmen that will know if there is any update,”
she said.
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