Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has arraigned former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, on an 11-count
charge for money laundering and procurement fraud.
The EFCC accused the defendants of defrauding
676,675 Nigerian applicants of N676,675,000 (Six Hundred and Seventy Six
Million, Six Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Naira).
Each of the 676,675 applicants were
charged N1,000 each for the participating in the recruitment exercise.
Mr. Moro was arraigned before
Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja, alongside three others
for their roles in the botched March 15, 2014 immigration recruitment exercise
that killed no fewer than 20 job seekers across the country, the News Agency of
Nigeria reported.
His was arraigned alogside permanent
secretary of the ministry at the time, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; a deputy
director in the ministry, F. O Alayebami; and the contracting firm given the
recruitment job, Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd.
Thr defendants are also accused of
flouting the Public Procurement Act, No. 65 of 2007 in the award of the
contract for the organisation of the recruitment test to Drexel Tech Nigeria
Ltd.
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