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Ex-pension boss, Maina gives condition to testify for government

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-Abdulrasheed Maina offers to testify against pension fraudsters.

-He disclosed his life is at risk from those who don’t want their dirty secrets exposed to the public.

Maina challenges EFCC to resume the prosecution of pension thieves identified by him in 2011.

The former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team [PRTT], Abdulrasheed Maina, has informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) that he will be ready to testify as a state witness against the 43 pension thieves he arrested while in office.

Speaking through his lawyer, Barr. Sani Katu, Maina said he would appear before the anti graft agency only if it is ready to account for the recovered cash and asset worth N1.63 trillion he allegedly recovered while he was the pension boss, as well as resume the prosecution of the suspects he had handed to them many years back.

He also disclosed that he would be ready to come out in public to share his side of the story, once he is assured of the safety of his life.

The former pension boss’ lawyer in a statement released on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, said:

He (Maina) is never afraid of the EFCC or any anti-graft agency. In fact, he is ready to testify as a state witness against the 43 pension thieves he arrested provided the EFCC is ready to account for why they failed to secure convictions of these suspects since 2011.”

“The government and Nigerians ought to start asking these questions. We have all the facts and documents ready to back up our testimony and will readily present it to the appropriate independent panel of inquiry as soon as we are ready to confront the real corrupt elements.”

“Mr. President needs to ask for answers to logical questions to get to know what the EFCC is actually doing,” Katu added.

“We want to still reiterate our earlier affirmation that under the leadership of Maina as the pension board Chairman, 43 persons were arrested and handed over to the EFCC to prosecute while 222 houses were seized from them.”

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“In the current media trial where all manners of stories have been published, there have been a lot of distortion of facts and sometimes outright blackmail, all in an attempt to paint him black.”

“The Pension cabal has penetrated the system so much that their presence can be seen and felt in high places. We request for an enabling environment to put things in their right places via documentary evidence.”

“It is only a wicked man that runs when no one chases him. Whenever the EFCC and other anti-graft agencies are ready to go for the actual prosecution of the 43 pension thieves arrested some years back, Maina would not only see credibility and help EFCC in prosecuting the suspects but surely say his own side of the story.”

“Nigerians are wiser than some people may think,” Katu concluded.