The immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Patrick Abba Moro, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the March 2014 employment scam in the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).
The scam involved fleecing over 700,000 Nigerian graduate applicants.
Moro was interrogated for hours over alleged mismanagement of N700million levies collected from applicants for vacancies in the Nigerian Immigration Service.
The March 15 tragedy also led to the death of about 20 applicants in various recruitment centres across the country.
Former president Goodluck Jonathan, however, failed to yield to the calls of Nigerians who demanded the resignation or dismissal of the former minister and the then Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang, as well as their criminal prosecution for involuntary homicide.
The duo, with Mr. Moro more culpable, had put in place a sham recruitment process that enabled the interior ministry to extort at least N700 million in compulsory levy imposed on applicants.
Moro is expected to return to the EFCC for another round of interrogation on Thursday.
The anti-graft agency had earlier grilled David Parradang and the Secretary to the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison Service Board, Mr. Sylvanus Tapgun.