EFCC Quizzes Abba Moro over Immigration Recruitment Tragedy

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) on Tuesday questioned the immediate past Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, over alleged complicity in the March 2014 recruitment exercise for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).

Moro, who arrived at the commissions headquarters in Abuja at about 11a.m. was immediately moved into the interrogation room for questioning.  The interrogation took about seven hours, as he left the commission around 6p.m.  The spokesperson of the commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, who confirmed that Moro was present at the commission, did not speak further on the matter. However, a source within the commission hinted that Moro was made to answer questions on his alleged involvement in the recruitment exercise which eventually turned tragic.

Reports revealed that there were only 4, 000 vacancies that were to be filled in NIS, while the Ministry of Interior approved the sale of application scratch cards to over 520,000 citizens, through a consulting firm.  Yet the ministry failed to provide adequate provision for the conduct of standard recruitment aptitude test. About 18 job seekers died and many injured in March 2014 during a nationwide recruitment test. The over 500,000 applicants who indicated interest in the job had paid a compulsory fee of N1,000 as application fee.  Immediate past Comptroller-General of NIS, Mr. David Parradang, was as well interrogated in September, by operatives of the EFCC, over the controversial recruitment exercise.