A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia.
The court, however, discharged and acquitted the then Minister of Interior, Senator Abba Moro and two others on charges of fraud over the 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise.
Other defendants were a Deputy Director in the Ministry, F. O Alayebami; one Mahmood Ahmadu (at large), and the contracting firm given the recruitment job, Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd.
According to a report by the PUNCH, the presiding Judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba however deferred the sentencing of Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia to April 27.
The former Permanent Secretary was convicted on count four of the charge, which the court noted, carries a maximum jail term of five years without an option of a fine.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Abba Moro, and others on an 11-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, procurement fraud and money laundering.
They were ab initio arraigned before Justice Anwuli Chikere of a Federal High Court, Abuja, for their roles in the botched March 15, 2014 Immigration recruitment.
