As the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC finalizes plans for his trial over the 2014 Immigration Service recruitment fiasco that led to the death of fifteen applicants, former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro is blaming the former Comptroller General of Immigration, David Parradang for that avoidable tragedy.
Specifically, Moro accused Parradang of abandoning the recruitment exercise to attend a birthday party.
His words :
“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 assisting the Board had assumed a life of its own and was conducting the recruitment rather than assist the Board.
“What value was Parradang adding to the work of the Presidential Committee when on March 15, 2014 he abandoned his duty to provide leadership to the conduct of the recruitment to attend birthday parties in Jos?
“The same way he chose to gallivant in America and the UK during the 2014 Promotion Exercise against official advice."
Meanwhile, sources said that the EFCC has concluded plans for the arraignment of former Minister of Interior Abba Moro, a former Permanent Secretary and a director over the N650million proceeds of the Immigration recruitment fraud.
6.5million candidates applied for 5,000 immigration jobs, each person paying an application fee of N1000.
In the stampede that ensued during the exercise, 15 persons lost their lives while many others sustained injuries in Abuja, Port Harcourt and Minna centers.
Speaking on the investigation, a source close to the anti-graft agency said in confidence that;
“No one can account for the whereabouts of the N650million collected from applicants. Out of the fees, N212million was budgeted for the March 2014 recruitment exercise but N45 million was eventually released and some officers still helped themselves with it.
“So far about N167million meant for logistics on the test day could not be accounted for by anyone or group. “
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