The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has told the Senate ad hoc panel probing the reinstatement into the civil service, and promotion to acting director of Abdulrasheed Maina, of how he met the fugitive civil servant in Dubai.
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Malami made the disclosure on Tuesday when he appeared before the panel during which he was confronted by its members with four letters he wrote to the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) on the sacked chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team.
“Malami agreed before the parliamentary panel that he held a meeting with Maina in Dubai, although he insisted that he was not responsible for his dramatic return to the service.
“The committee discovered that three letters were written by the Justice Minister asking questions from the FCSC on Maina. There is no record that the questions were answered by the FCSC in any correspondence.
“The fourth letter was written by the Attorney-general in January as a directive to the Civil Service Commission to reinstate Maina. In the letter, the AG asked for Maina’s status, his position, rank and next rank,” a source was quoted by The Nation as saying.
It was also said that Interior Minister Abdulrahman Danbazau and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior appeared before the committee.
