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February 22, 2016

NIS recruitment scam: EFCC quizzes Abba Moro, Ex-Interior, 2 others

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Monday took into custody, the former Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro and two others the ill-fated 2014 recruitment exercise into the Nigerian Immigration Service, which led to the death of no fewer than 20 Nigerian job-seekers.

Also taken into custody and interrogated along with the former minister was the then permanent secretary in the interior minister, Fatima Bamidele and a director in the Immigrations, Fire Service, Prisons and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, simply indentified as Ibrahim.