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Senate accuses EFCC of cornering 222 mansions recovered by Maina

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Senator Emmanuel Paulker, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the reinstatement and promotion of the former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Thursday, raised the alarm on the floor of the Senate over alleged relooting of properties recovered by the task force, by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Senator who raised a point of order, specifically alleged that information reaching his committee in the course of its ongoing investigation on Maina’s saga, indicated that about 222 recovered property comprising of exotic Houses and Hotels handed over to EFCC by Maina before his removal as chairman of presidential task force on pensions in 2014, have been shared by top notches in EFCC, or interested parties in the society .

‎The committee according to him, got wind of the looted property from submissions made to that effect by some of the invited government officials connected with the botched reinstatement and promotion of Maina”.

He has therefore requested the Senate to expand the scope of his committee’s investigation in unravelling who and who were involved in the relooted loots.

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“For this alarming revelation sir, this committee request the senate to expand the scope of its investigation on Maina by extending it to the management of assets recovered by him and handed over to EFCC before his removal as Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Pensions in 2014 and by so doing, extend the duration of the assignment,” he said.

‎President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki in his remarks said the committee must do everything possible in unraveling those behind the alleged relooting and report back in four weeks time.

“This is a very serious matter and more of large scale corruption going on in a forbidden place. we just hope that it remains at realm of allegation and not as it is presented,” he said.

The Paulker led committee had in the last two weeks had closed door sessions with the Attorney General of the Federation ( AGF ) Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahaman Dambazzau, Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, Mustapha Sulaiman etc, on their alleged roles in aborted reinstatement and promotion of Maina in the Federal Civil service after three years of disappearance from the public space on alleged mismanagement of pension funds.

By Ehisuan Odia …

 

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