EFCC has Launched Fresh Manhunt for Maina

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Mobile police officers attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday stormed a mansion belonging to embattled civil servant, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has been on the wanted list for about two years.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered his sack and called for an investigation into how he was recalled into the civil service despite being on the wanted list of the EFCC.

Maina, who headed the controversial Presidential Pension Task Team under President Goodluck Jonathan, was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged looting of pension funds running into hundreds of millions of Naira but he fled the country to the United Arab Emirate since 2013 to avoid arrest and prosecution.

The EFCC is said to have deployed its crack operatives to hunt for Maina within and outside Nigeria with a view to bringing him to justice, an action, which is believed to be clandestinely pposed by some powerful forces in the presidency.

The commission on Sunday convened an emergency strategy meeting to deliberate on the shocking and embaraassing development and get Maina tracked down even though the Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, was reported to be away from town.

“We are looking for Maina everywhere and we will certainly get him and bring him to account for his action,” an EFCC top source confirmed last night to one of Vangaurd’s correspondents in Abuja.

Contacted last night, EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that Maina remains a wanted man on the commission’s list and that they were still looking for him despite the claim that he had been pardoned and recalled by the HoS.

“We are on the trail of Maina, whom we declared wanted and the situation has not changed as we speak,” Wilson said last night



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