Former minister of interior under president Goodluck Jonathan, Abba Moro has been arraigned in court and subsequently remanded in Kuje jail by the court.

Mr Moro is facing charges, along side three others, for the monumental fraud which trailed the Nigerian Immigration service recruitment exercise in 2014 under his watch.

The immediate past Interior Minister, who came to court with his entire family, was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) 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.

His co-accused 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.

After the charges had been read, Justice Chikere ordered that the former minister should be remanded in Kuje prison, Abuja, while Mrs. Daniel-Nwobia was released on administrative bail.

The judge adjourned the case to March 2 for hearing of Mr. Abba Moro’s bail application.

http://jed360..com/2016/02/immigration-job-scam-abba-moro-sent-to-jail.html

Hmmm

Is that his daughter?