EFCC - A Nigerian senator seeking social media regulation awarded multi-million contract without due process
Is on the news that a Nigerian senator supporting the regulation of social media
awarded a multi-million contract without following due process when he was a
minister, the anti-graft agency, EFCC, said on Monday.
Abba Moro, the former interior
minister, is being prosecuted by the EFCC at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The agency said the interior
ministry, then under Mr Moro, did not follow due process in the contract award
for the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise that
claimed the lives of many applicants.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Moro
last week urged his colleagues in the Senate to support the bill which seeks to
regulate the use of social media in Nigeria.
In his contribution during the
debate by senators, Mr Moro said lawmakers have in one way or the other been
victims on social media.
“I think all of us here have been
victims of the spread of falsehoods and the manipulation of the internet has
caused a lot of havoc to some of us. And so, I rise to support this bill
believing that it will protect the society against unscrupulous elements within
our society,” the ex-minister turned senator said.
On Monday, an EFCC witness told a
judge about the shady recruitment contract approved by Mr Moro.
Details of Monday’s court session
was sent to PREMIUM TIMES by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren.
Read Mr
Uwujaren’s full mail below.
The trial of former minister of
Interior, Abba Moro, continued on Monday, November 25, 2019, before Justice
Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, with prosecution witness 12
(PW12), Niyi Adebayo, revealing that the Interior Ministry under Moro and
Drexel Tech Nigeria Limited, the fourth defendant, did not follow due process
in the contract award for the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job
recruitment exercise that claimed the lives of dozens of job applicants.
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