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The Senate on Tuesday set up a committee to investigate the embattled ex-chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has been accused of complicity in an N2bn fraud and has gone into hiding.
According to the Senate, the committee is to investigate the circumstances of how Mr Maina got into the country, how Mr Maina was reinstated into Public Service and how Mr Maina got promoted to the level of Director.
After its sitting on Tuesday, the Senate resolves that the Committee on Public Service and Establishment investigate how Maina got into the country after he left the shores of the country after being on investigation by EFCC.
The Senate through the committee is also set to investigate how Maina was reinstated into Public Service and how he got promoted to the level of Director in the civil service.
Senator Akpan Bassey adds that the Committees on Interior and Anti-Corruption should be included to the committee carrying out the investigation.
Senator Olusola Adeyeye in his contribution said that the Ad-hoc Committee should include Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Committees on Interior, judiciary and anti-corruption, public service and establishment headed by the Chairman Committee on Public Service and Establishment.
Senator Alasoadura said, “We should not always duplicate the Executive, if the Executive has ordered an investigation we shouldn’t order another.”
Some lawmakers in their contributions say the reinstatement of Maina into the civil service is an indictment on the Attorney General of the Federation.