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Abba Moro
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Abba Moro, former
minister of interior, is being interrogated by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the recruitment tragedy that rocked the Nigeria
Immigration Service in 2014. TheCable understands that he arrived the Abuja
office of the anti-graft agency on Monday morning following an invitation to
respond to allegations of fraud in the recruitment process which ended
tragically with 16 deaths.
The
recruitment test, written on March 15, 2014, attracted 6.5 million applicants,
700,772 of whom paid ₦1000 each as online registration fee.
Only
4,000 vacancies were available.
TheCable report continues:
Questions
were raised over the ₦700 million generated by the consultant through
online registration fee and why adequate measures were not taken to
prevent overcrowding and stampede at the test centres.
Moro
initially blamed the applicants for being “disorderly”, but later took
responsibility, expressing regrets that his desire to eliminate favouritism
through a competitive recruitment process had ended in a tragedy.
Former
President Goodluck Jonathan rejected calls to sack Moro but offered jobs to
families of the victims close to the March 28, 2015 presidential election,
which he lost.
David
Parradang was removed as comptroller-general of NIS by President Muhammadu Buhari
in August.
He was also quizzed in
September by EFCC over the saga.
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