N1.7bn allegation: Publish my son’s account, Maina tells Magu

The Former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce
Team, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has challenged the acting Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim
Magu, to make public the said account allegedly owned by his son
where N1.7 billion was said to have being lodged.

Maina, who spoke through his spokesman, Mohammed Sabo, described
the allegation as a perpetual lie that was fabricated and as such
had no substance. He said: “Show verifiable account number and the
amount in the account to the public to independently verify.”

The former pension helmsman also added that if his son owned
such huge amount of money, then returning to the civil service
would have been a waste of his time. Based on this, he urged Magu
to face the various corruption allegations hanging round his neck
including the 222 properties he recovered from pension thieves.

He maintained that Magu had allegedly received about N19.8
billion and $5 million from the 43 pension suspects with the
promise never to convict them. According to him, it is clear that
after six years, there is no hope of conviction of the 43 pension
thieves, some EFCC staff had recently written a petition against
Magu of allegedly stealing their N750 million allowances from the
coffers of EFCC.

This is corruption of the highest order. Maina, however,
insisted that, for the avoidance of doubt, Magu should publish a
verifiable document showing the said account and its balance, so
that Nigerians would verify individually, stressing that such was a
figment of Magu’s imagination that does not exist

The Former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce
Team, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has challenged the acting Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim
Magu, to make public the said account allegedly owned by his son
where N1.7 billion was said to have being lodged.

Maina, who spoke through his spokesman, Mohammed Sabo, described
the allegation as a perpetual lie that was fabricated and as such
had no substance. He said: “Show verifiable account number and the
amount in the account to the public to independently verify.”

The former pension helmsman also added that if his son owned
such huge amount of money, then returning to the civil service
would have been a waste of his time. Based on this, he urged Magu
to face the various corruption allegations hanging round his neck
including the 222 properties he recovered from pension thieves.

He maintained that Magu had allegedly received about N19.8
billion and $5 million from the 43 pension suspects with the
promise never to convict them. According to him, it is clear that
after six years, there is no hope of conviction of the 43 pension
thieves, some EFCC staff had recently written a petition against
Magu of allegedly stealing their N750 million allowances from the
coffers of EFCC.

This is corruption of the highest order. Maina, however,
insisted that, for the avoidance of doubt, Magu should publish a
verifiable document showing the said account and its balance, so
that Nigerians would verify individually, stressing that such was a
figment of Magu’s imagination that does not exist