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Abba Moro Remanded In Kuje Prison by samuel25(m): 12:46pm On Feb 29, 2016 |
Former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has
been remanded in Kuje prion by a Federal High
Court over his involvement in the controversial
immigration recruitment scam.
Abba Moro, who is the immediate past Minister
of Interior, was on Monday remanded in Kuje
Prison by Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal
High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in
a N676m immigration recruitment scam. Also
remanded in prison custody was a Deputy
Director in the ministry, Mr. F. O Alayebami.
The court took this decision after he pleaded not
guilty to an 11-count criminal charge that was
preferred against him by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Justice Chikere, however, granted administrative
bail to the 2nd defendant, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-
Nwobia, who was a former Permanent Secretary
at the Ministry of Interior when the alleged fraud
was committed.
Mrs. Daniel-Nwobia who is nursing a baby
persuaded the court, through her lawyer, Chief
Chris Uche, SAN, to allow her to go home to take
care of her baby.
The EFCC earlier told the court that one of the
accused persons, Mahmood Ahmadu, who was a
Director at Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd, a firm that
was allegedly used to perpetuate the botched
March 15, 2014 Immigration recruitment exercise
that killed no fewer than 20 job seekers across
the country, is currently at large. The charge
against the accused persons borders on
obtaining by false pretence, procurement fraud
and money laundering.
The anti-graft agency categorically 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) as each of the 676,675
applicants were charged N1,000 each for
participating in the ill-fated Immigration
recruitment exercise.
The defendants were also alleged to have flouted
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.
The EFCC stated that its investigations revealed
that the firm which it said was not validly
registered to operate in Nigeria, never bided for
the contract, adding that the contract was
awarded through selective tendering procedure
by invitation of 4 (Four) firms without seeking
the approval of the Bureau for Public
Procurement, contrary to sections 40, 42 and 43
of the Public Procurement Act, No. 65 of 2007
and punishable under section 58 of the same act.
Meanwhile, the case has been adjourned by
Justice Chikere till next week Wednesday to
consider whether or not the ex-Minister and his
alleged accomplice should be released on bail
pending their trial.
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