A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday found a former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, guilty in the trial of persons involved in then failed recruitment by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) where 20 job seekers died in 2014.
The convict was prosecuted alongside Senator Abba Moro and others over the botched immigration recruitment in 2014 that led to the death of about 20 people.
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.
However, Justice Dimgba has 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 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.
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