The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rearrested a pension thief and former top civil servant, John Yakubu Yusuf, THISDAY has learnt. The antigraft commission has also obtained a remand order to enable him serve his six years imprisonment in Kuje prison as directed by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
The EFCC had on March 21, 2018, secured a “re-conviction” of Yusuf for six years while the appellate court also ordered him to pay a fine of N22.9 billion. But due to the verdict of Justice Talba of the FCT High Court , which gave him light sentence and set him free, Yusuf had been at large until he was rearrested in Gombe.
Details shortly…
