The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has appealed to Nigerians to help it arrest “wanted man”
Abdulrasheed Maina, who is the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force
Team on Pension Reforms.
Spokesperson of the anti-graft
agency, Wilson Uwujaren, made the appeal while addressing the media on Friday.
The failure of the EFCC to hunt
down the ex-Pension boss more than a week after he was fired has led many to
question the EFCC’s handling of the matter.
Those unhappy with the EFCC said
that although Maina had been declared wanted by the commission in 2015, it
failed to arrest him when he returned to the country quietly and got reinstated
into the civil service; eluding the commission again after his most recent
dismissal.
But the EFCC spokesperson said
the commission had not relented in its quest to arrest Maina and gave the
assurance that it was bent on getting him.
“We are on his trail; we are not
relenting. We have opened up channels of communication and we have linked up
with several law enforcement agencies, both internally and outside the country,
to ensure that we get him. Wherever he is, he knows that he is a wanted man,”
Mr Uwujaren said.
To achieve its goal, the
commission needs the help of Nigerians, according to him.
“I will also use this opportunity
to appeal to Nigerians; anywhere, anybody that sees him has a responsibility as
a citizen of this country to alert law enforcement,” he said.
“You can report to the nearest
police station or any EFCC office that is closest to you. Maina is wanted and
we are not relenting in our efforts to get him.”
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