Latest Update: ‘DSS, EFCC Know Maina’s Whereabouts’ – Ex-Secret Police Director Alleges

‘DSS, EFCC Know Maina’s Whereabouts’ – Ex-Secret Police Director Alleges

Contrary to reports that the embattled former Chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms,

Abdulrasheed Maina, is on the run, a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, Dennis Amacree, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission knows where he is.

Recall Maina had been declared wanted by the anti-corruption agency.

Amacree said this during an interview on a breakfast television show, Sunrise Daily, on Channels Television on Thursday, November 2.

When asked if the EFCC should seek help from sister agencies in finding Maina, Amacree said, “Well, they can do that but I believe strongly that they know where he is. They do but it might be difficult for them to get to him because he has surrounded himself with a bunch of people.”

Amacree said the DSS also possessed intelligence on Maina’s whereabouts but the feud between the acting EFCC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and the DSS Director General, Lawal Daura, was preventing the two agencies from cooperating.

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“The EFCC is looking for him but it was claimed that the DSS was protecting him and so intelligence will not be shared. The break in synergy did not start today.

 Remember that Magu was supposed to be confirmed by the Senate and he hasn’t been confirmed till now because of a letter from the DSS. So, there is no love lost between them.”

He said there was a general belief that President Muhammadu Buhari was fully aware of Maina’s reinstatement and his whereabouts.

The former DSS assistant director wondered why Buhari would go ahead to reinstate Maina after the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, warned him against it.

“The HoS said she advised the President not to reinstate Maina. So, let someone come out and tell us the truth,” he added.

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Amacree said Maina’s governorship posters were all over the streets of Maiduguri, adding that the intention of those who reinstated him was to make him the next governor of Borno State.

He said, “If you go to Maiduguri you will see his posters everywhere where he says he wants to be governor. I don’t think he came back because he just wanted to be a director in the ministry. I think this was one of the steps he wanted to take before becoming governor.”

Source: Nigerian monitor