Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), and Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the EFCC, will now appear in the fraud and financial impropriety case involving Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT).
A federal high court in Abuja has summoned the to duo testify in the money laundering case against the embattled former pension boss.
As gathered by EKO HOT BLOG, the summon was contained in subpoena signed and issued by Okon Abang, the judge, on March 8.
Similarly, Abang also compelled 10 persons to come before the court on March 9, 10 and 11 to testify in Maina’s defence.
The document addressed to Malami and Magu reads: “You are commanded in the name of the president and commander in chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria to attend before this court at court 6, on 9th, 10th, 11th day of March 2021 at 9 o’clock in the forenoon, and so from day to day till the above case is tied, to give evidence on behalf of the 1st defendant.”
Those who were also subpoenaed are Femi Falana, M. Mustapha, Hassan Salihu, Mohammed Wakil, G.T Idris, Kenneth Amabem, Ibrahim Kaigama, and the director of compliance, Central Bank of Nigeria.
Maina is standing trial for allegedly laundering money to the tune of N2 billion.
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