Khalid Aliyu, the EFCC prosecution witness (PW5) in the ongoing trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), on Friday, disclosed that the PRTT rejected an N2 billion bribe from the accused persons in the police pension fraud. Aliyu, who is also Maina’s younger brother, made the disclosure during cross-examination before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja. At the resumed trial on Friday, counsel to Maina (1st defendant), Afam Osigwe, asked Aliyu to repeat what he told the court the previous day. Giving his evidence-in-chief before the court, Aliyu narrated how Maina and his team rejected the N2 billion, in dollar currency, from a driver of one Yusuf Teidi and others who were under probe by the PRTT. Osigwe also asked Aliyu, who had worked with a commercial bank before joining the civil service, to tell the court how an instrument is presented to the bank for withdrawal.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 18:11 UTC