Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Judge Angry as Maina’s Absence Stalls Trial-within-trial

Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team continued his court absenteeism on Thursday, February 26 and by so doing, aborted his trial-within-trial before Justice Abubakar Kutigi of the Federal Capital Territory , FCT, High Court, Asokoro to determine the admissibility of his extrajudicial statements to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC is prosecuting Maina, first defendant, alongside Ann Igwe Olachi, a civil servant on a nine-count charge, bordering on receipt of stolen funds to the tune of N738, 612,019.99 (Seven Hundred and Thirty-…