Former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has been charged with fraud and money- laundering for his alleged role in a failed recruitment process in which 20 job-seekers were killed in a stampede in 2014.


Mr Moro pleaded not guilty to all 11 counts in the High Court in the capital, Abuja. 

However, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja remanded Moro in Prison custody over his alleged complicity in a N676million job scam. Moro was remanded at Kuje prison until his bail application hearing on 2 March.

Specifically, EFCC alleged that the defendants defrauded 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 participating in the ill-fated Immigration recruitment exercise.