The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that the Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, to be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Center, following his failure to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, whom he stood as surety for.
Justice Okon Abang gave the order on Monday during the commencement of absentia trial of Maina on a 12-count charge of money laundering. Maina was alleged to have used his account and firm, Common Input Properties & Investment Limited to laundered funds to the tune of about ₦2 billion.
He earned over seven months stay at the Kuje Correctional Center before the court released him on bail on July 24, after Senator Ndume agreed to stand surety for him and pay ₦500m as a bail bond.
After he secured his bail, for six consecutive times Maina failed to appear for his trial, forcing the court to issued a bench warrant against him and ordered his arrest if found anywhere while his trial will continue in his absence.
Sometime in October in a video Maina came out to say he was hospitalized and did not jump bail.
