Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N2bn Pension Fraud: How Maina, Son Made Huge Cash Withdrawals- Witness

The trial of Abdurrasheed Maina, former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team and his son, Faisal, continued on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja with the first prosecution witness (PW1), Mairo Abdulahi Bashir, a branch manager with United Bank for Africa, UBA, testifying on how both defendants made huge withdrawals, which he considered as unusual, from their accounts with UBA. Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Esther Uzonna, Bashir presented documents indicating that Faisal on June 13, 2019 withdrew N58,111,585.02k (Fifty Eight Mi…