Mr Ndume stood as Mr Maina’s surety and used his Abuja property title document worth N500 million as a bail bond.
“I feel safer than in Abuja. Because (in Abuja) somebody can knock down your door with a gun,” said Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume.
Northern Senators Forum has met over Nigeria’s acute insecurity to proffer solutions to the nation’s protracted security crisis.
“It is also important that we provide resources or more resources for our security agencies to enable them to gather to tackle the criminal activities going on across the country.”
“As I said, I can be quoted: the only place I see new AK46 is in Abuja. That is necessary because that is the image of Nigeria.
“When the BDC operators are arrested now, what will the government do with them? The Presidency is already saying their case is confidential. What is confidential about it?”
The army must be given what they need to carry out the assignment and that is money, equipment, personnel which translates into money, says Ali Ndume.
The legal team was preparing to file a no-case submission in the federal corruption trial.
Mr. Maina was recently retrieved from Niger Republic where he was hiding by Nigerian security agencies with the help of Interpol.
A federal judge remanded the senator in prison when the fleeing ex-pension chief failed to show up in court on September 29.
