The immediate past Interior Minister, Abba Moro, will on
Monday be docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on an 11-count
charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, procurement fraud and money
laundering before Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Others to be charged alongside Mr. Moro for their roles in
the botched March 15, 2014 immigration recruitment exercise that killed no
fewer than 20 job seekers across the country are: permanent secretary of the
ministry at the time, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; a deputy director in the
ministry, F. O Alayebami; one Mahmood Ahmadu(at large), and the contracting
firm given the recruitment job, Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd.
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.
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