Detained former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been singing like a canary bird in EFCC’s custody.

Insiders squealed to us that; “Maina and his son have been in custody in the last one week. But we have decided to refer his son to the Nigeria Police for investigation for illegal possession of firearms and attempted murder of security operatives.”

“If any prima facie case is established, Faisal Maina will face trial accordingly. But he aided his father to resist arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS) with a pistol. It is left to the police to look at his conduct in line with the law of the land.”

“The interrogation of Maina continued for hours on Tuesday and he has made useful statement. So far, we have traced over 40 assets to him and we are verifying all the documents.”

“Thousands of transactions have been linked with him. We have also picked him up on how he came up with fictitious accounts, including the use of BVN of his relatives, like his sisters, for these accounts.”

“We will certainly take measures to freeze his accounts to enable our detectives conduct a good profiling of him. We will soon release some details of what he admitted in the course of interrogation.”

Besides, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday secured an order of the FCT High Court, Bwari, to detain him and his son, Faisal in its custody pending the conclusion of the investigation against them.

EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said;

“The order, which was given on October 7, 2019, following an ex parte application by the anti-graft agency, empowers the commission to remand the defendants in its custody for an initial period of 14 days.”

“The court, however, noted that the order is ‘subject to be reviewed, if necessary’. Maina and his son were arrested at an Abuja Hotel by the Department of State Services, following a request by the commission.”

“They were subsequently handed to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution on allegations of fraud and money laundering.”