Former Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has commenced the
interrogation of a former Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, in
relation with the failed National Immigration Service recruitment which
led to the death of 19 job seekers across the country.
Moro was invited by the EFCC to appear
before a team of investigators from the commission’s Economic Governance
Unit to answer questions in relation with the tragic recruitment
exercise.
The former Interior minister arrived the
Commission’s Idiagbon House by 10am and was ushered into one of the
investigation rooms for interrogation.
Moro was still being interrogated by operatives of the commission as of the time of filing this report six hours after by 5pm.
The
commission had reopened investigation into the NIS recruitment by
quizzing the former Comptroller General of Immigration, Mr. David
Paradang, on September 15, 2015.
Paradang went through a rigorous process
of interrogation which focused on how N600m collected from applicants
who participated in the ill-fated exercise was spent.
Prior to Paradang’s invitation, the
commission had been inundated with facts that top officials of the
Ministry of Interior and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison
Services Board, who presided over the exercise only declared N45m as
the money collected from the applicants.
It was further gathered that the
commission had questioned several people whose names came up in the
process of the investigation to explain how the balance of N555m was
spent.
The EFCC source said, “The former
Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, is with us now. He was invited in
relation with the issue of the March, 2014 recruitment of the service
and he came.
“He is still being interrogated by our team from the Economic Governance Unit.”
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