Andulrasheed Maina, a former chairman of Presidential Taskforce on Pensions Reform, has said former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, stole more than he's being accused of.

MyNigeria reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is currently at it with Malami over N270 billion stolen funds. The antigraft agency has also seized several properties belonging to the former AGF.

However, Maina claims the EFCC can recover more from Malami, because what has been recovered so far is nothing compared to what he stole.

“Malami allegedly stole a lot of funds. What the government has seen so far is not even one quarter,” Maina said.

“We can recover these funds from Malami. There are more than what has been seen. What is 270 billion? Yes, the government is doing the right thing. There must be accountability, transparency and the rule of law, which is what I see the government doing as against what the last.”

Maina then recalled how top government officials from the Muhammadu Buhari administration begged him to return to Nigeria from Dubai after hearing that he allegedly recovered huge sum of money during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

“All these things happened during the last administration. I don’t believe this could happen in this administration. How could somebody come to Abu Dhabi? The late President Muhammadu Buhari was there, Kemi Adeosun was there, Babagana Monguno, former NSA, was there, and Abubakar Malami was there,” Maina said.

“They begged me, and I refused to come to Nigeria. They went back to Nigeria and made my mother insist that I come back to Nigeria because Jonathan had told them that I recovered 1.63 trillion during his time; this can be ascertained by Okonjo-Iweala and 227 properties.”

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