How Abba Moro rejoiced with his supporters after getting bail (photos, video)
– Comrade Abba Moro has been in the eye of the storm after after he was detained by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 22
– Comrade Moro was re-invited by the EFCC recently over the N650 million 2014 immigration recruitment scandal in which some job seekers lost their lives
– Comrade Moro was granted bail earlier today, throwing his supporters into frenzy
After receiving bail without conditions by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, March 3, the former minister of interior greeted his many supporters who thronged the court environment with great joy.
Comrade Moro acknowledges cheers from his supporters
Most of the supporters in their scores were barred from crossing the court gate by security officers.
They were all outside the court premises through out the time the ruling took place.
But on receiving information on the bail of the minister, the supporters sang and dancing in joy.
A woman among the supporters of Comrade Moro dancing after the former minster was granted bail
While Moro approached the court gate which was locked and secured by security operatives, the crowd cheered him up.
Abba who was still inside the court, dressed in a shirt and chinos trouser waved at his supporters, shouting and hailing them through the locked gate.
Moro alongside three others – a deputy director in the ministry, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; F. O Alayebami; one Mahmood Ahmadu(who is at large) – are accused of contracting a botched recruitment job to Drexel Tech Nigeria Limited, an Drexel unregistered company, the EFCC claimed.
The charges, an 11-count charge by the EFCC, include obtaining money by false pretences, procurement fraud and money laundering.
The charges are linked to a botched immigration recruitment that led the death of 20 job seekers in Nigeria on March 15, 2014.
The defendants are said to have obtained, by false pretence, the sum of N676,675,000 from job seekers who paid N1,000 each to take part in the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment exercise.
However, Moro was granted bail by Justice Anwuli Chikere on self-recognizance.
Also, the third and fourth defendants were granted N100 million bail and the second defendant, Chikere ruled will remain on bail on the conditions formerly given to her by the EFCC as a nursing mother.
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