Mr Abdulrasheed Maina was appointed in 2010 to head the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) as it’s chairman. Due to his track record in public service, he came in highly recommended to effect positive change and carrying out necessary reforms as the team lead of the pension reform task force.
In less than 2 years acting as the chairman of the pension reform task force, a man who was highly recommended to come clean up the mess lingering in the pension body and purge the black sheep ironically became the black sheep that needs to be cleaned up and purged out of the Pension Task Team as he was in numerous occasions fingered for corruption, embezzlement of the pension funds and money laundering.
In the years 2015, 5 years of him occupying the position of the executive chairman of the the Pension Reform Task Team, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission opened his book of remembrance. He was charged to court for corruption, embezzlement and laundering of public fund worthing about N2 billion with his privies.
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Justice may seem to have been delayed as the corruption case against Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina lingered in court for about six years but the justice was definitely not denied as Maina finally got served hot justice and he got what he deserved. He was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment by his Lordship, Justice Okon Abang, on Monday, 8th November, 2021 at the Federal High Court, Abuja judicial division.
The sentencing of Mr Maina came exactly one month after his son Mr Faisal Maina who was fingered to be an accomplice to his father in money laundering and embezzlement was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
This should serve as stern warning to politicians, political appointees, public servants and civil servants and eve private practitioners who feel that Nigeria is a no mans land and they can do any thing they like, embezzle public trust funds, steal collective resources and launder money and get away with it.
Maina won’t see the light of the day for the next eight years while his son will spend atleast a decade around the four walls of the prison yard where they will both spend each day that passes in regret, agony and anguish.