no capacity to manage our own affairs. Imagine, we are running our lives with loans while our wealth is being siphoned away by a few greedy rats in public office. A few well connected carpetbaggers steal and privatise our collective streams while we are reduced to washing our faces with spittle.
If Abdulrasheed Maina had been a citizen of any other country except Nigeria, he would have had a date with justice long ago. Appointed by the Jonathan administration in 2010 to sanitise the pension scheme which had become notorious for being treated as a gravy train by a succession of important thieves, Maina, within two years, transmogrified from gatekeeper to gate-breaker as he allegedly helped himself and his accomplices to sums in excess of N100 billion .
Maina was to spend nine months in Kuje prison while spiritedly battling for bail which was first set at N1 billion but was later reduced to N500 million with a surety who must be a senator with landed property in the highbrow Maitama District, Asokoro, Wuse II, Katampe or Central Business Districts of Abuja.
Considering the heinousness of the crime Maina was alleged to have committed — stealing funds meant to cushion the pains of old age for those who had served their fatherland and had no other means of financial succour except the pension which was their entitlement — it was strange that Maina was granted bail, especially considering the circumstances of his arrest after his initial escape from the country.
“The public is hereby notified that Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team , whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on Procurement Fraud and Obtaining by False Pretence. Déjà vu? The drama is being re-enacted all over again. The lead prosecuting counsel has formally informed the court of the disappearance of the prime accused. Justice Okon Abang has now revoked the bail earlier granted Maina and ordered that he be arrested in any part of the country he may be found and brought to Abuja to face trial. The judge also ordered that the trial shall continue in the absence of the defendant.
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