JUST IN: Ex-Pension boss, Maina, released from Kuje Prison
Ex-Chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina who was arraigned before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Oct. 25, 2019 has been released from Kuje Correctional Centre, nine months after his detention.
Maina was arraigned alongside his son, Faisal, and firm, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd.
He was charged with 12-counts of money laundering of N2billion. He pleaded not guilty to all the counts.
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However, Maina’s Lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, in a telephone interview with NAN on Tuesday, said the ex-PRTT boss was finally released on Monday evening after completing the necessary documents for bail.
Adedipe, who is from the chamber of senior lawyer, Ahmed Raji, said though Maina should have been released July 24, the release was delayed till this week due to administrative procedures.
“It was already late last week Friday so they now have a new timeline shifted at 6 O’Clock.
“We went there and everything was done,” he said.
On why Maina had been kept in detention after Justice Abang further varied his bail conditions on June 29, the lawyer said: “It was also administrative. There were lapses here and there; transmission of processes from one department of government to another.”
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He, however, said the development had nothing to do with an act of vindictiveness on the part of the government officials.
Adedipe, who expressed happiness over the release, said the action would afford his client to have adequate medical attention.
“We can only thank God and this is good for us because we will now have time to prepare for his defence; we will now have goof conferencing on the matter.
