{"id":60277,"date":"2017-11-24T01:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60277"},"modified":"2017-11-24T01:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:16:33","slug":"maina-efcc-calls-senate-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/maina-efcc-calls-senate-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"Maina: EFCC Calls Senate Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has lashed out at the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerian Senate over allegation that \u201cofficials of the Commission shared<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">222 properties which Maina\u2019s Panel seized from pension fund thieves\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The statement was attributed to the Chairman of the Senate Ad Hoc<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Committee investigating the controversial reinstatement of Abdulrasheed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Maina, Senator Emmanuel Paulker.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">EFCC lamented the dearth of knowledge on the part of Senator Paulker and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">wished he had approached the agency for clarifications before going on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">air.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The statement stated categorically that \u201cthere are no 222 properties<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">anywhere that were shared by anybody\u201d and that \u201cthe EFCC did not receive a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">single property from Abdulrasheed Maina\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The statement reads:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">been drawn to comments attributed to the Chairman of the Senate Ad Hoc<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Committee investigating the controversial reinstatement of Abdulrasheed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Maina, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, alleging that officials of the Commission<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">shared 222 properties which Maina\u2019s Panel seized from pension fund<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">thieves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This sweeping allegation, coming from a Senate Committee is disturbing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">more so as no attempt was made to verify the information from the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Commission.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The EFCC was never invited by the Committee and given the opportunity to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">educate it on the status of assets seized from suspected pension thieves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Yet the Committee was comfortable to scandalize the EFCC with the public<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">disclosure of unverified claims by unknown interests.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">For the avoidance of doubt, there are no 222 properties anywhere that were<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">shared by anybody. The EFCC did not receive a single property from<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Abdulrasheed Maina.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">All the pension fraud assets that are in the recovered assets inventory of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the Commission were products of independent investigation by the EFCC, for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">which Maina and his cohorts had no clues.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">If Maina or any government official witnessed the sharing of any recovered<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">pension assets by any official of the EFCC, they should be willing to name<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the official, the assets involved; when and where the \u2018sharing\u2019 took<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">place.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">As far as the EFCC is concerned, there is no controversy regarding the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">status of assets recovered from suspected pension thieves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The record of all the recovered assets from both the Police Pension and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the Pension Office of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Federation as well as their current status are intact, and have been<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">communicated to the relevant organs of government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">However, in view of the consistent display of public ignorance about the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">profile of recovered assets by even those who should know, it is important<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to state that it is impossible for anybody to share a property that is<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">subject of interim forfeiture by court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Of all the properties seized from pension fraud suspects, it is only<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">properties that are linked to John Yusuf, who was convicted under a plea<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">bargain arrangement that had been forfeited permanently and handed to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">All the others, with the exception of Brifina Hotel, are subject of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">interim forfeiture. 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