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| Abba Moro |
The ex-Minister of Interior, Abba Moro has been summoned and is being
grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over the 2014 ill-fated recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration
Service which claimed more than 16 lives across several recruitment centres in
the country.
Moro was taken into EFCC custody on Monday in the Abuja office of the
anti-graft agency. Recall that over 700,772 applicants paid the sum of 1000
each to write a test for an employment slot of just 4,000.
Although, in a public
apology statement made by the ex-Minister to Nigerians on the 7th of
April, 2014, Moro had said that he took responsibility over the bad
organization of the recruitment exercise that led to the deaths of many youths
seeking employment into the service.
“For me, it is a personal loss because the exercise, in
the first place, took place within the Ministry of Interior, organised by the
Ministry and its services and so whatever consequences, positive or negative,
that have come and in this instance, negative, I, as the Minister of that
Ministry, under whose purview this exercise took place, where people lost their
lives, certainly take full responsibility,” apologized Moro.
Also, the ex-Comptroller-General of Immigration, David
Parradang, who was a
key-party to the botched recruitment exercise was removed by President Muhammadu Buhari in August and
was interrogated by the EFCC in September. No charges have yet been brought
forward on him though.
An official of the EFCC who confirmed the arrest of Mr.
Moro said a team of investigators have already begun interrogating him.
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