Justice Abang, who made the remark, said the order was to allow Maina, who was in court take his medication.
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Maina, however, unlike his previous appearance, was not brought into Court 6 with a wheelchair
The trial of former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina charged with 12 counts bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud”, was stalled on Tuesday, due to his ill-health.
Justice Okon Abang fixed the date, after taking arguments from the defence and prosecution counsel.
Maina, who spoke through his counsel, Joe Gadzama (SAN), at the commencement of trial on the case against him filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, sought for the case to be reassigned to another judge.
Justice Okon Abang gave the ruling after taking the arguments of the defence and prosecution counsel.
Security in and around the Federal High Court, Abuja, was on Friday beefed up by operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission as Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, is to be arraigned.
This comes as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to arraign him on October 25, 2019 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Maina is being detained by the anti-graft agency, which is probing him for alleged N2.1 billion fraud
Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo gave the order of interim forfeiture following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Where is Abdulrasheed Maina? Can somebody tell him to swim ashore before a dragnet fishes him out? The drama of his disappearance is astonishing. Maina is a popular figure in the Abuja circuit of elite civil servants. He has his house and office in Abuja. He drives around Abuja. He canoodles his harem of wives in and around Abuja. Yet, this intrepid thief is mesmerising this nation. He is waoing us all with the masterstroke of a classic Houdini disappearing magic. Of course, in the warren of houses in Suleija it is easy to accommodate a rich fugitive. But Maina the absconding rogue is too self-assured to be seen bedding down among the commoners of bustling Suleija.
The Department of State Services gave the details in a statement on Wednesday by its spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya
Sources have told The Eagle Online that the former Head of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was arrested while hiding in a bullet proof car in an Abuja hotel.
Maina had been on the run in the last four years.
Two witnesses in the trial of Stephen Oronsaye, former Head of Service of the Federation, alleged that a brother of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, opened three accounts where ”unspecified amounts” were lodged in Fidelity Bank Plc.
Timi Frank, a Political Activist, has urged the Nigerian Senate to make public its investigations on former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina.
Abubakar said this on Monday in reaction to a statement by the Buhari Campaign Organisation that he was corrupt
Abubakar said this in a statement by his spokesman, Mazi Paul Ibe, in response to a statement by the Presidency on his interview with AFP
The party accused the government of misusing the anti-graft and security agencies close to the 2019 general election, stressing that such posed a grave threat to the nation’s democracy
Fayose, in a statement, said it appears those left out have become Saint Looters in the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government