EFCC probes former NIS boss David Paradang over immigration job scandal

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday invited the immediate past Comptroller General of the NIS, David Paradang to ask questions over the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment tragedy in 2014, which led to the death of 19 young job seekers.

Paradang was also interrogated on the disappearance of N555m collected from applicants who participated in the 2014 exercise.

Top officials of the Ministry of Interior and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison Services Board, only declared N45m as the amount collected.

''Operatives of the commission are interrogating the former Comptroller General, Immigration, David Paradang,'' a source told Punch. ''The man was invited and he came on his own and he was immediately ushered into the interrogation room. No, he was not arrested. Operatives are interrogating him in relation with the Immigration recruitment exercise that led to the death of many innocent Nigerians in 2014. The commission is probing the disappearance of N600m that was received from the applicants. There is this report that those who carried out that exercise declared only N45m out of the N600m they collected. We want to know where the remaining N555m is.''

According to Punchng, the EFCC might invite the immediate past Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, and other top officials of the interior ministry in relation with the issue.

The Senate under David Mark as president had in 2014 probed the tragedy but the report of the investigative committee did not see the light of the day before the seventh senate ended.