The former Minister of Interior under President Goodluck Jonathan, Abba Moro has passed all the blames for the 2014 ill-fated recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service which claimed more than a dozen lives across several recruitment centres in the country. This was even as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has interrogated him today on the same issue.
An official of the EFCC said that a team of investigators have already begun interrogating Moro after being picked up on Monday.
Moro has been involved in counter accusations with the former the Comptroller-General of Immigration (CGI), David Parradang on the matter.
The former minister had earlier expressed shock that he was being made a scapegoat for the outcome of the controversial employment exercise supervised by the Presidential Committee to Assist in Immigration recruitment.
He said all he did was to try to ensure that the exercise was conducted by following due process, which was why he petitioned the AGF to investigate the procedure being applied by the Presidential Committee.
“If I prevented Mr. Parradang from carrying out the job of recruitment as Minister of Interior, did I go with his sense of responsibility of knowing how not to conduct employment without budgetary provision and utter disregard for extant rules? Yes, I wrote to the Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to seek clarification to guide the Board when I discovered that the Presidential Committee to assist the Board had assumed a life of its own and was conducting the recruitment rather than assist the Board.”. [myad]
