By Unini Chioma
Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, 25th June, 2020, discharged former Minister of Interior, Sen. Abba Moro, of the criminal charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment tragedy.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba held that the EFCC failed to establish ingredients of fraud that could link the lawmaker with the alleged offence.
Justice Dimgba, while discharging Moro, who was a Minister of Interior under President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, from the alleged fraud aspect of the recruitment exercise, said the prosecutor failed to present even one applicant to testify that he or she was defrauded by the defendant. He threw out the case for lack of merit. He, however, ordered the Distinguished Senator to defend himself on the public procurement aspect of the charges.
The case was adjourned and the court rose.
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