Court orders Maina’s son to start seven-year jail time period

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By Linda Ikeji
12 November 2026, 6:29 pm

A federal excessive courtroom in Abuja has ordered the remand of Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, to a correctional centre to serve his seven-year jail time period.

James Omotosho, the presiding decide, gave the order on Thursday after granting an ex parte utility filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) looking for a warrant for Faisal’s dedication to the Nigeria Correctional Service.

The EFCC had requested the courtroom to implement the conviction and sentence imposed on Faisal for cash laundering and failure to completely disclose his belongings in a declaration type.

The fee additionally requested that his jail time period ought to start from October 14, 2026, when he was rearrested by the Department of State Services within the Karsana space of Abuja.

Faisal was subsequently handed over to the EFCC, about six years after he jumped bail and disappeared throughout his trial.

After the EFCC counsel, M.Ok. Hussain, moved the applying, Omotosho granted the reliefs sought and issued the committal warrant.

The decide directed that Faisal ought to serve three years’ imprisonment on rely one, seven years on rely two and three years on rely three, in accordance with the Court of Appeal’s judgment of November 24, 2022.

The sentences are to run concurrently, ranging from October 14, 2026.

Faisal was first arraigned in 2019 on a three-count cost bordering on cash laundering and failure to completely declare his belongings. He pleaded not responsible to the fees earlier than a former decide of the courtroom, Justice Okon Abang.

However, he later jumped bail and stopped showing for courtroom proceedings, forcing Abang to proceed the trial in his absence.

On October 7, 2021, the courtroom discovered him responsible and sentenced him to 5 years in jail on counts one and three, and 14 years on rely two. The sentences have been to run concurrently.

The decide additionally ordered his arrest wherever he was discovered and directed that he be taken to a correctional facility to serve his sentence.

Although the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction, it diminished the jail phrases in a judgment delivered on November 24, 2022, to 3 years on counts one and three, and 7 years on rely two.

Meanwhile, Faisal’s father, Abdulrasheed, was individually convicted in a cash laundering case involving roughly ₦2 billion. He has since served his jail sentence.