Lawyers Seek Presidential Intervention To Free Maina, Son

A group, Young Lawyers League of Nigeria has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to free the detained former chairman of Presidential Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina and his son, Faisal through presidential intervention.

Also, the lawyers appealed for compensation for Maina, judicial review of his case and that he be reinstated back to his position in line with the reinstated letter issued to him in 2017.

The lawyers made the call at a briefing Abuja Federal Highway Court through a letter with the caption: Travail of Dr Abdulrasheed Maina after recovering N2.93 trillion for successive administrations.

Through their chairman, Emmanuel Ekwe, the lawyers told newsmen that a letter to that effect has been submitted to the president through the office of the secretary-general of the federation office this morning.

The move, according to them, became necessary against the backdrop of his deteriorating health, pleading that their demands be granted on both compassionate and health grounds.

The statement reads: “In that letter we have chronicled our demands that among other things, Maina be released from detention through lawful presidential intervention.

“As you can see, Nigeria is in a precarious situation at this time and we are in dire need of money to finance our projects including the subsidy removal.

“Maina has used his expertise before now to recover N1.3 trillion naira during former president Goodluck Jonathan administration to aid the economy.

“Again, during president Muhammadu Buhari era, Maina also recovered N1.6 trillion naira. But when it got to the time to pay him his five percent, that was why his travail started,” the group said.