Faisal Maina Ordered to Begin 7-Year Jail Term After 6 Years on the Run
Last update: November 13, 2026
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Stealing pensioners’ hope, then vanishing for six years. Justice finally caught up.
CBI News notes that a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered Faisal Maina, son of ex-pension boss Abdulrasheed Maina, to start his jail term for money laundering.
Faisal was arraigned in 2019, jumped bail, and disappeared. He was rearrested on 14 October 2026 in Karsana, Abuja, and handed to the EFCC.
This case sits inside Nigeria’s painful pension scandal, where billions meant for retired workers vanished. His father was separately convicted over about N2bn and has since served his term.
When pension money is stolen, elderly people go hungry, miss medicine, and die waiting for what they earned.
The Court of Appeal cut his original sentence to three years on counts one and three, and seven years on count two, to run concurrently from his rearrest date.
As it stands' The Correctional Service must enforce the term fully, and the EFCC must recover assets.
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Written by Babatimilehin kayode
Posted by Babatimilehin kayode · Last updated: November 13, 2026
