By Uche Mbah
Faisal Maina, the son of Abdulrasheed Maina, the controversial former Pension boss, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for money laundering.
An Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Okon Abang handed down the sentence Thursday.
The father had been sacked by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan under controversial circumstances, but the Buhari administration brought him back. At a time he was nursing governorship ambition.
His father is also being prosecuted. Both father and son were arrested the same day in an Abuja Hotel after the senior Maina had disappeared, and stayed away in Dubai for years.
He later jumped bail, but was rearrested in Niger Republic.
The younger Maina was a student in Dubai before his father’s activities put him in trouble with the law.
