- A legal practitioner, Jiti Ogunye, has described the recall and reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina into the civil service, as a grand conspiracy against the Buhari-led government
- Ogunye descrbed the embattled former pension boss as a ‘scofflaw’, and stated that it was obvious that the president was not aware of what was happening behind him
- The legal practitioner further chided the minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, for endorsing Maina’s reinstatement into the civil service after the EFCC had issued a warrant for his arrest
The reported recall and reinstatement of the embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, has been described as a grand conspiracy against the Muhammadu Buhari administration, by a legal practitioner, Mr Jiti Ogunye.
Ogunye made his comments during an interview session on a Channels TV programme, Politics Today.
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NAIJ.com gathers that Ogunye stated that President Buhari was unaware of what was going on behind him.
He stated: “We are dealing with a grand conspiracy against the people of Nigeria, the Nigerian state and from what we can see, the President himself.
“By the President’s action, it is obvious that he didn’t know what was happening behind him.
"Maina has been a fugitive from justice, and is a scofflaw. He is a scofflaw in the sense that he has defiled the Nigerian state; he has defiled every institution.
“He has defiled the serving Senate, the EFCC which is in the Executive branch of government, he defiled the court.
"A man who is a scofflaw, who is a fugitive, who ran away from a criminal justice process, cannot be found guilty in absentia.”
The lawyer further accused the minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, of triggering the entire controversy by endorsing Maina’s reinstatement into the civil service after the EFCC had issued a warrant for his arrest.
In his words: “The Senate asked him to come, he refused to come. He went to court via a fundamental rights enforcement procedure application to injunct the Senate.
“Now by 2015, he had been charged to court by the EFCC and he was supposed to be in court.
“He was declared wanted because there was an order for his arrest, a warrant of arrest.
“What has happened is that by deception, that order (warrant) for his arrest was vacated by a Magistrate court and the Attorney-General who triggered this whole thing.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, denied allegations that he embezzled pension fund.
In a video, Maina claimed he had in his possession, documents that would expose the level of corruption in Nigeria.
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Source: Naija.ng