More revelations were made on Thursday on the controversy surrounding the reinstatement of the former boss of the Presidential Task Form on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina, at the probe of the House of Represenatives into the case.
Appearing before the probe panel, the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Lawal Daura, stated that he only advised the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to meet Maina abroad.
According to him, Malami had sought his opinion on the planned meeting.
His words: “The attorney general of the federation sometime in 2016 or 2015 (can’t remember the exact day) because it was not through a formal document, placed a call to me when he was outside the country and requested me on a request he got through a source that Maina wanted to meet him.
“He wanted me to advise him whether to agree to see Maina or not in that foreign country.
“I responded to the attorney general that he should accept to see Maina but he should not see him alone.
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“He should see him with a third party.”
He explained too that the only link between the SSS and Maina was to protect him because of his claim that his life was being threatened.
He said Maina wrote a letter to that effect.
“The letter was scrutinised and fears expressed by Maina were also to a large extent established,” he said.
He added that, “because of the right to life which is guaranteed by our constitution universally recognised, Maina’s case was directed to be looked into so as not to allow his life to be in jeopardy.”
According to him, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission did not write his organisation on the Maina issue.
