The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the immediate
past Interior Minister, Abba Moro, on an 11-count charge bordering on obtaining
by false pretence, procurement fraud and money laundering.
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.
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.
The
anti-graft agency is also accusing the defendants 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.
Justice
Chikere ordered that the former minister should be remanded in Kuje prison,
Abuja,
The
judge adjourned the case to March 2 for hearing of Mr. Abba Moro’s bail
application.
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