Court grants ex-Minister, Abba Moro, bail without conditions
Thu Mar 03, 2016 01:12:pm National
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Comrade Abba Moro has been granted bail on self recognition while the 2nd and 3rd defendants are to produce N100m each with 2 surety in like some.
Justice Chikere Posited that Comrade Abba Moro is a senior, reputable citizen of Nigeria who has served this country diligently in the position of the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and with no previous record of criminal activity. I, therefore, grant him bail on self recognizance "
Abba Moro, who is facing charges over the 2014 tragic Nigeria Immigration recruitment in which more than a dozen job seekers died.
Mr. Moro was given bail on self-recognition, and without conditions.
The judge said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission failed to prove that Mr. Moro would interfere with his trial.
The judge however ruled that two other defendants should pay N100 million each with a surety in like sum. The sureties must be of the directorate cadre in the civil service.
The sureties and the defendants are to submit two recent passports as well as their international passports, and the sureties must also have landed properties worth the amount in any part of the country.
Mr. Moro and four others are facing an 11-count charge of money laundering.
They are accused of defrauding 676, 675 applicants of the sum of N676, 675, 000, being the aggregate of N1000 paid by each applicant to Drexel ahead of the recruitment.
Justice Chikere Posited that Comrade Abba Moro is a senior, reputable citizen of Nigeria who has served this country diligently in the position of the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and with no previous record of criminal activity. I, therefore, grant him bail on self recognizance "
Abba Moro, who is facing charges over the 2014 tragic Nigeria Immigration recruitment in which more than a dozen job seekers died.
Mr. Moro was given bail on self-recognition, and without conditions.
The judge said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission failed to prove that Mr. Moro would interfere with his trial.
The judge however ruled that two other defendants should pay N100 million each with a surety in like sum. The sureties must be of the directorate cadre in the civil service.
The sureties and the defendants are to submit two recent passports as well as their international passports, and the sureties must also have landed properties worth the amount in any part of the country.
Mr. Moro and four others are facing an 11-count charge of money laundering.
They are accused of defrauding 676, 675 applicants of the sum of N676, 675, 000, being the aggregate of N1000 paid by each applicant to Drexel ahead of the recruitment.
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