'How former permanent secretary Abba Moro, others shared N675m NIS job applicants’ money’ – Witness reveals (Details, pics)

Two prosecution witnesses appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, narrating how the sum of N675,675,000 realised from 675,675 applicants who applied  for job placement at Nigerian Immigration Service in 2014, was shared.

The two were testifying as the fifth and sixth prosecution witnesses in the ongoing trial of the then Minister of Interior, Abba Moro,  and others on charges of recruitment fraud.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had instituted 11 counts against Moro; a former permanent secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; and a deputy director in the ministry, Mr. Femi Alayebami.

The other defendant is Drexel Tech. Nigeria Limited, a firm that carried out the NIS recruitment exercise on behalf of the ministry.

The defendants were alleged to have defrauded a total of 675,675 Nigerian job seekers to the tune of N675,675,000 through alleged fraudulent collection of N1,000 per applicant as online application fee for jobs at the NIS.

Some of the applicants died during the exercise.

A former Head of Finance of Payforme Services Nigeria Limited, Mr. Augustine Ugorji, and an employee of Keystone Bank, Mrs. Bilikisu Mohammed, testified as the fifth and sixth prosecution witnesses, respectively.

The two witnesses, separately led in evidence by the Head of the prosecuting team, Mr. Aliyu Yusuf, told the court presiding officer.