Tuesday, 29 January 2013

EFCC Re-arrests Pension Thief For False Declaration Of Assets

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have re-arrested convicted former Director of Pension in the Police Affairs Ministry, Mr. John Yakubu Yusufu, on fraud-related matters.

He is to be arraigned today at a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on a fresh charge for committing fraud to the tune of N300 million.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today re- arrested Mr. John Yusuf, a former director of the Police Pension fund who had earlier been set free by an Abuja high court for stealing $203 million from the Police pension fund.

EFCC spokesperson Mr. Wilson Uwujaren said Mr. Yesufu is currently being detained at the Abuja office of the the EFCC for false declaration of assets. He stated that the former pension administrator will soon face fresh charges.

Police Pension Fund Judgement Scam:

Rogue Judge Abubakar Talba

Abubakar Mahmud Talba

This picture is the face of Talba Abubakar Mahmud, the Abuja judge who gave yesterday’s shocking ruling that set free a police pension fund thief, John Yakubu Yusufu, is popularly known in the city’s legal circles as "Justice Taliban,"

According to an entry under his name on the webpage of the High court of the Federal capital Territory Abuja, Mr. Mahmud was born on January 2, 1960.

The judge who has become the object of anger and resentment from Nigerian citizens across the world with his bizarre ruling was born in Fagge in Kano state, but his father is from Adamawa State.

He is married with 11 kids, but it is unclear if he has more than one wife.

The entry shows that he was appointed to his current position in December 2003, and that he obtained a law degree in 1985.

Although Mr. Mahmud claimed to have obtained a diploma in law in 1981, a B.L degree in 1985 and a Masters Degree in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in 2009, his biodata does not disclose the institutions from which he obtained the degrees.

In yesterday’s judgement in which Mr. Mahmud announced himself to the world, he gave a police pension thief, who pleaded guilty to stealing $203 million, a two year prison sentence and offered an option of $1,500 fine in lieu of the sentence.

The infamous sentence is attracting a massive backlash from Nigerian citizens and anti-corruption activists across the globe.