The Nigeria Police Force has extradited the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, from Niamey, Niger Republic.
The fugitive was apprehended in the Nigerian capital on
Monday, by the operatives of the NPF, International Criminal Police
Organisation National Central Bureau, Abuja, in collaboration with their
Nigerien counterparts.
It was gathered on Thursday that the fugitive has been
brought to Abuja where he was being held at a police facility.
He will be interrogated before handing over to the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission or the Nigerian Correctional Service for remand
in Kuje Custodial facility.
The Commissioner of Police, Interpol NCB, Garba Umar,
confirmed Maina’s extradition.
ABDULRASHID MAINA EXTRADITED TO NIGERIA
— Nigeria Police Force (@PoliceNG) December 3, 2020
The Nigeria Police Force has extradited Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), today, 3rd December, 2020, to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic,
The force spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, also confirmed the
development in a statement titled, ‘Abdulrashid Maina extradited to Nigeria.’
It read, “The Nigeria Police Force has extradited
Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team
today, 3rd December, 2020, to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic, where he was
arrested having been declared wanted by a court of competent jurisdiction over
a pending criminal trial against him.
“The team from INTERPOL Nigeria, led by the Commissioner of
Police, INTERPOL, CP Garba Umar, having completed the necessary documentation
requirements and other extradition processes, flew the wanted former pension
boss, Maina into Nigeria aboard an NPF Jet 5N-HAR and landed at exactly 1417Hrs
(Nigerian time).”
The former director in the ministry of interior, who is
being prosecuted on 12 counts of money laundering to the tune of N2 billion by
the EFCC, had jumped bail forcing the trial judge, Justice Abang Okon to issue
an arrest warrant against him.
He was said to have stopped attending his trial since
September 29, 2020, prompting Justice Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja,
to order the remand of his surety, Senator Ali Ndume penultimate Monday.
The court, however, granted bail to the Borno South Senator, last Friday.
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