Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Maina, EFCC Trade Words Over Wanted Notice, Court Order

Barrister Esther Uzoma, counsel to erstwhile Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, on Tuesday faulted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on an alleged order by Justice Gabriel Kolawole that she produced her client in court.

In a statement which she issued in Abuja, Barr Uzoma said ;

“The EFCC should come clean on the matter of my client, Dr. Abdulrasheed Maina. When I appeared before His Lordship, Justice Kolawole, on July 21, I made it clear that the EFCC was yet to file any charge as well as serve any summons on Dr. Maina.

“It is trite law that you cannot say an accused is on the run when there is no charge preferred against him or any invitation extended to him.

“During the hearing for the bail application, counsel to the EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN),wanted the court to direct me to produce Maina in court at the next sitting which I argued that there are clear procedures,which the EFCC is familiar with and should follow.

“Naturally, the court agreed with my submission on the position of law. Therefore, it is misleading for the EFCC in its statement of Monday to mislead the public that there exists an order for Maina to be produced in court when there is no invitation extended to him talk-less of a charge preferred against him by the commission.”

EFCC had on Monday declared Maina wanted over his alleged role in fraudulent biometric contracts resulting in the mismanagement of over two billion naira pension funds.

NCC Extends MTN's. Operating License

Amidst fears that MTN might have to pay its $5.2b fine before its license would be renewed, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC on Tuesday extended the operating license of the mobile telecommunications giant.

MTN has been in talks with the Federal Government over the modalities for the payment of the fine imposed on it for failing to deactivate unregistered SIM cards.

Nigeria requires telecoms operators to verify the identity of their subscribers given fears that unregistered SIM cards can be used to perpetrate criminal activities. 

Buhari Receives List Of Confirmed Ministers From Saraki

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday formally received the list of 36 ministerial nominees screened and approved by the Senate.

The list was presented to Buhari by Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Saraki who arrived the Presidential Villa around 3pm was accompanied by the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang and the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Suleiman Kawu.

Passport Tussle : Dasuki Floors FG

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday granted former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki permission to seek medical attention abroad.

The presiding judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered the Federal Government to release the former NSA's travel documents to enable him travel abroad for medical treatment.

Fed Govt To Build 10,000 Houses For IDPs In Adamawa State

In furtherance of its desire to rehabilitate communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgency, the Federal Government plans to build 10,000 houses in Adamawa State.

The vice chairman of the committee set up by the federal government to oversee the reconstruction of the Northeast, Hajiya Hadiza Muhammed, disclosed this on Monday .

She said that the committee had already visited all the local governments affected by the crisis and would be making recommendations to the President.

Her words :
“We are going to build no fewer than 10, 000 houses in Adamawa.

“With the work given to me to go round all the local governments to do documentaries of houses destroyed; that one has been done and we will make presentations to the president and, very soon, we will start reconstructing the region."

FG To Pay Workers October Salaries Today

The Federal Government has declared that its workers who are yet to get their October salaries will get paid today.

The delay is said to have been caused by system failure.

A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said that the delay was caused by unforeseen technical challenges.

Biometric Contracts Fraud: EFCC Declares Maina Wanted

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday declared the former Pension Reform Task Team’s Chairman, Mr. Abdulrsheed Maina, wanted.

According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren,  Maina is wanted for his role in the fraudulent biometric contracts through which he, former Head of Service, Mr Steve Oronsaye and two others allegedly mismanaged over N2 billion of pension funds.

See the statement below.
“Maina was on July 21, 2015 charged alongside Oronsaye , Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence.

“While Oronsaye and two others were in court and pleaded not guilty to the charge, Maina had been at large.

“However on July 21 when the court heard the bail applications of the accused persons, Maina through his counsel, Esther Uzoma, told the court that he was not at large, claiming that the EFCC had never invited him.

“Consequently, EFCC counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, pleaded with the court to prevail on the accused’s counsel to produce Maina in court as the commission had no clues as to his whereabouts.

“The court granted Rotimi’s prayers. Yet Maina continued to shun court proceedings, leaving the commission with no option than to declare him wanted.

“Indeed, since the commission filed charges against Maina, more damning evidence have emerged on how the ebullient former Pension Task Team boss siphoned pension funds using secret accounts in a new generation bank in Abuja.

“Two officers of the bank were quizzed two weeks ago. Commission’s sources said they made damning revelations of several opaque transactions through which Maina allegedly lined his pockets at the expense of thousands of hapless pensioners.”

The EFCC urged anyone with information that can lead to Maina's arrest to contact any of its offices in Lagos, Abuja, Gombe, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu or report to the nearest police station.

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