Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court
sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted bail to former Minister of Interior, Abba
Moro, on self recognition.
Moro was arraigned on Monday by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside a former Director in the ministry,
F.O. Alayebami, and former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Anastasia
Daniel Nwobia, on an 11-count charge bordering on complicity in a N676 million
immigration recruitment scam.
The trial judge, Justice Anwuli Chikere, had at the
last sitting of the court, ordered that Moro and his codefendants be remanded
at Kuje Prisons in Abuja pending her decision on their application for bail.
Ruling on the former minister’s bail application and that of his co-defendants,
Justice Anwuli granted Abba Moro bail on self recognition and granted the two
other defendants bail in the sum of N100 million and one surety each, in like
sum.
The court ruled that the surety to the former director in the ministry,
F.O. Alayebami and former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Anastasia Daniel
Nwobia, must be a public servant, not below the rank of a director.
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