The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina on Thursday slumped during his trial in court.
The Federal Government is prosecuting Maina in a 12-count charge before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The former pension boss who resumed trial last Friday collapsed at exactly 10:05 am when his counsel, Anayo Adibe was making submissions before Justice Okon Abang.
Maina had on Wednesday after the EFCC closed its case with nine witnesses, secured permission of the court to enter a no-case-submission.
Before Maina’s collapse, his counsel was praying the court for an adjournment to enable him to get records of court proceedings.
The proceedings would help him prepare for the no-case submission he intends to file on behalf of his client, Adibe said.
But after Maina collapsed, the court rose abruptly to enable officials of the Correctional Service and relations of the former pension boss to attend to him.
The matter had been adjourned on Wednesday to today for the defendant to argue his no-case submission and for the prosecution to respond to the same orally
