A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for permission to surrender Faisal, the son of a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, to prison authorities for him to serve the jail term the court imposed on him.
Justice James Omotosho gave the permission yesterday while ruling on an ex parte application the EFCC filed and moved by the agency’s lawyer, M. K. Hussain.
Justice Omotosho granted the leave for the EFCC to apply for an order enforcing a pending judgment against Faisal, who stopped attending court since June 24, 2020, after he was granted bail while the EFCC was prosecuting him on a three-count charge. The judge also issued a warrant for Faisal to be handed to prison authorities to make him serve the jail term the Court of Appeal imposed on him, beginning from October 14 when he was arrested.
Justice Omotosho said in line with the November 24, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, the defendant was sentenced to three years on counts one and three, and seven years on count two, all of which shall run concurrently.
The judge said the jail term shall begin to run from October 14, being the date he was re-arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) that later handed him to the EFCC.