I Met With Maina In Dubai, Malami Confesses To Senate Panel

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The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has explained his role in the reinstatement of fugitive Abdulrasheed Maina.
The Minister admitted before the Senate adhoc panel probing Maina’s reinstatement into the civil service and promotion to acting Director that he met with Maina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year.
He also admitted that he wrote letters to the Federal Civil Service Commission (FRSC) on the sacked chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team.
Malami appeared on Wednesday with the Interior Minister Abdulrahman Danbazau and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior appeared before the committee.
The Nation reports that the Interior Minister and the permanent secretary insisted that they played no role in Maina’s recall.
“Malami agreed before the parliamentary panel that he held a meeting with Maina in Dubai, although he insisted that he was not responsible for his dramatic return to the service,” it quoted a source.
“The committee discovered that three letters were written by the Justice Minister asking questions from the FCSC on Maina. There is no record that the questions were answered by the FCSC in any correspondence.
“The fourth letter was written by the Attorney-general in January as a directive to the Civil Service Commission to reinstate Maina. In the letter, the AG asked for Maina’s status, his position, rank and next rank.
“There was another letter in February where the AG directed the Civil Service Commission to reinstate Maina. The committee frowned at this because under the constitution, they felt the AG cannot issue that kind of directive.
“When committee members asked the AG to react to the allegations that he wrote the letters, the AG agreed that he wrote them, but said he could not remember all that he wrote.
“He pleaded with the committee to allow him contact his files to ascertain the content. He promised to return tomorrow. The committee agreed.
“The committee was satisfied that the Head of Service (HoS) of the Federation documented everything.
“The Committee observed that she was tidy. It was learnt that at the sitting, the HoS did not release the purported letter written by the Civil Service Commission to Maina.”
Maina, was in 2015, accused of over N2billion pension fraud and declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which enlisted the International Police (INTERPOL) to trace him.
But he dramatically showed up in the country and was last month reinstated as acting Director in the Ministry of Interior which embarrassed President Muhammadu Buhari who ordered Maina’s immediate sack and a probe of how he was brought back.

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