A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Faisal Maina, son of former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, to be committed to a correctional centre to begin serving his jail term for money laundering and failure to fully disclose his assets.
Justice James Omotosho made the order on Thursday after granting an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seeking a warrant committing Faisal to the Nigerian Correctional Service.
The EFCC asked the court to enforce the conviction and sentence earlier imposed on Faisal and requested that his prison term commence from October 14, 2026, when he was rearrested by the State Security Service in the Karsana area of Abuja.
Faisal was subsequently handed over to the EFCC, about six years after he jumped bail and stopped attending his trial.
After EFCC counsel, M.K. Hussain, moved the application, Justice Omotosho granted the reliefs sought and issued the committal warrant.
The judge directed that Faisal should serve three years’ imprisonment on count one, seven years on count two and three years on count three, in accordance with the Court of Appeal judgment delivered on November 24, 2022.
The sentences are to run concurrently, beginning from October 14, 2026, meaning the maximum term to be served is seven years.
Faisal was arraigned in 2019 on a three-count charge bordering on money laundering and failure to make full disclosure of his assets.
He pleaded not guilty before a former judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Okon Abang.
Faisal, however, later jumped bail and stopped attending proceedings, prompting Justice Abang to continue the trial in his absence.
On October 7, 2021, the court convicted him and sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment on counts one and three and 14 years on count two, with the sentences to run concurrently.
Justice Abang also ordered that Faisal be arrested wherever he was found and taken to a correctional centre to serve the sentence.
Although the Court of Appeal subsequently upheld his conviction, it reduced the sentences in its November 24, 2022 judgment to three years on counts one and three and seven years on count two.
Following his rearrest on October 14, 2026, the EFCC returned to court to obtain the necessary committal warrant for enforcement of the appellate court’s sentence.
Faisal’s father, Abdulrasheed Maina, was separately convicted in a money laundering case involving about ₦2 billion and has since completed his prison sentence.
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