-Thisday Newspaper 20-03-2014 A commissioner on the board, Mr. S.D Tapgun, told the committee that the board, whose members and heads of agencies he led to the House, gave no approval for the failed exercise. “Only the Interior Minister and the consultant he engaged for the exercise can tell Nigerians exactly what happened. Even the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service was not involved; he was not part of the recruitment at all. There was no board resolution to recruit any body,” he said. “When we the members of the board learnt about the recruitment exercise, we wrote the minister and informed him that we were not in support of engaging the services of a third party to conduct recruitment for the immigration service but he ignored our letter and went ahead to engage the consultant named Drexel Technical Global Nigeria Limited. “The consultant fixed every thing including a N1,000 fee which they claimed was to cover administrative charges,” he added. According to the board, the number of applicants registered totalled 693,000 and each of them paid N1,000 to designated banks through the consultant. Summoning both Moro and the consultant, chairman of the committee, Adeola Solomon Olamilekan, said: “This is fraud; Nigerians, our children have been defrauded to the tune of almost a billion naira, the minister and the consultant must inform Nigerians how much was collected, the banks where the money is being kept, and the account numbers, among other information.”
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