DETAILS of the arrest of former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulraheed Maina, on Wednesday have emerged as his son, Faisal, crashed a bullet proof Range Rover SUV in an attempt to escape arrest.

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS)have confirmed they arrested Maina and his 20-year-old son at the Pennsylvania Avenue Hotel, Utako, Abuja following a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the agency to assist in apprehending the suspect.

A security source told The ICIR that Maina’s son, Faisal, a final year student at the Canadian University of Dubai, attempted to escape with the SUV and rammed against the hotel gate, causing dents and burst tyres on the vehicle.

The source said that security operatives had been on Maina’s trail for a few days as he moved from one hotel to another in the nation’s capital. On Wednesday, when the DSS agents moved in to arrest maina, he was said to have given himself over without any resistance.

However, it was gathered that when his father was taken downstairs, Faisal was asked to stay back to witness a search of the room. According to the source, rather than wait in the room, the boy ran downstair to the Range Rover SUV and locked himself in. He then made to escape, smashing into the gate. TheDSS operatives on the hotel premises are said to have demobilised the car. In the process, the source said that Faisal pulled out a gun and shot at an operative before he was “demobilised.

Nobody was, however, injured in the incident but a picture of the Range Rover exclusively obtained by The ICIR showed that there might have been a gun duel between boy and the operatives.

A side of the vehicle shows gunshots that could not penetrate as it was a bullet proof car and a burst rear tyre, apparently hit by a bullet.

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in future...junior maina Will come and head one government agency.