Prison officials and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) clashed while an ex-Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina was being led into a waiting van of the correctional service after he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for money laundering.
The armed EFCC officials, who come in the company of equally armed mobile policemen, attempted to seize Maina from the grip of the prison officials but failed.
They later blocked the vehicles of the prison officials, resulting in a stand-off that lasted about 30 minutes.
Upon the intervention of some senior officials, the EFCC team backed down and allowed the prison vehicles, one of which was conveying Maina, to exit the court premises.
It was not clear why the EFCC team wanted to re-arrest Maina, although there is another pending case involving Maina before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which is being prosecuted by the EFCC.
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