LINUS CHIBUIKE
FORMER Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has arrived Abuja.
The Nigeria Police Force, which disclosed this on Thursday, said Maina was extradited from Niamey, Niger Republic.
“The Nigeria Police Force has extradited Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), today, 3rd December, 2020, to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic – Nigeria Police Force,” the NPF tweeted.
Maina was reportedly rearrested on Monday night, through the collaborative efforts of operatives of the Nigerian Police Force, International Criminal Police Organisation National Central Bureau, Abuja, and the Niger Republic Intelligence Service.
He is currently in Abuja, where he is being detained in a police facility, it was learnt.
The Point had reported that a Federal High Court in Abuja had commenced Maina’s trial, in absentia.
Justice Okon Abang had also, last Monday, ordered that the lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, be remanded in Kuje Correctional Center.
He gave the order, following Ndume’s inability to produce Maina, who is standing trial for alleged money laundering to the tune of N2bn.
Maina last appeared in court on July 2, 2020, during his legal team’s cross-examination of the sixth prosecution witness.
Having failed to attend subsequent proceedings on the matter since September 20, 2020, the Judge revoked the bail earlier granted Maina in a November 18, 2020 ruling, ordered his arrest and ruled that the trial would be done in absentia.
