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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, is still on its wanted list for his alleged role in pensions biometric scam in the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to the tune of N2bn.
This is despite reports that Maina had returned to Nigeria and had been reabsorbed into the civil service and promoted.
When contacted, the spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed this in that Maina is still on the commission’s wanted person’s list.
It was learnt that Maina had written a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation accusing the EFCC of a witch-hunt.
Maina, who was in 2010 directed by President Goodluck Jonathan to look into the corruption in the pension system, was himself later accused, in 2012, of conniving with others to perpetrate a pension fraud to the tune of N100bn.
He was subsequently invited by the Senate but refused to honour all invitations. Instead, he sued the Senate and the police and went underground. The Civil Service Commission dismissed him for absconding from duty.
The suspect was arraigned in absentia by the EFCC alongside a former Head of Service, Steven Oronsanye, before he was later declared wanted by the commission in 2015.