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Abba Moro in EFCC net over recruitment scam

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The anti corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was expanded on Monday, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested and detained the immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro and two others over 2014 Immigrations recruitment scam.

It will be recalled that a job recruitment drive by the Nigeria Immigrations Service in 2014 led to the death of about 20 job seekers across the country while several others were injured in the stampede that characterized the exercise, amidst allegations of financial scam against the organizers.

Read also: Why corruption thrives in Nigeria –EFCC boss, Magu

Also detained alongside the former minister is the then permanent secretary in the ministry of interior, Fatima Bamidele and a director in the Immigrations, Fire Service, Prisons and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, whose name was given as Ibrahim.

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