The Ex minister that claims lives of many , during immigration recruitment 2014 start trials today

A big manhunt is on the way for a key suspect in the
Immigration jobs scandal, which claimed 19 lives in
2014, The Nation learnt yesterday.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
will enlist the International Police (INTERPOL) and other
agencies in the United Kingdom (UK) to track down
Mahmood Ahmadu, an associate of former Minister of
Interior Abba Moro, sources close to the investigation
said.
Moro’s and Ahmadu’s trial is due to start today at an
Abuja High Court, EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujiaren
confirmed yesterday. Also to face trial is Ahmadu’s
company, Drexel Tech. Nigeria Ltd.
Ahmadu, who shuttles between Lagos and London, has
been unavailable for interrogation suspects, including, a former Permanent Secretary,
Mrs Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia and F. O. Alayebami, will
face an 11-count charge filed by the anti-graft agency
last Tuesday.
They are accused of alleged mismanagement of N676
million collected from over 600,000 applicants.
The EFCC spokesman said last night: ”Former Interior
Minister Moro will on February 29 (today) be arraigned
on an 11- count charge before Justice Chikere of the
Federal High Court, Abuja.
“We may enlist INTERPOL and relevant agencies in the
UK to track down Mahmoddd Ahmadu. He used to have
companies in the UK and with his biometrics, there is no
hiding place for him.
“We have already watch-listed him. This makes him a
security risk wherever he goes. It is in his interest to
come out of hiding.”
Last week, the EFCC exposed how a substantial part of
the N676.6million collected from 676,675 applicants
seeking employment with the Nigerian Immigration
Service (NIS), was mismanaged.
About N202.5 million was allegedly lavished on property
– No. 1, Lahn Crescent Maitama, Abuja and No. 2 Sigure
Close, Off Monrovia Street, Wuse II Abuja, which was
upgraded with N120.1 million.
The commission said the recruitment firm, Drexel Tech
Nigeria Limited and Ahmadu converted N101.2 million to
US dollars for personal use.
The houses were bought in 2015. Nineteen applicants
died and scores  got injured in job stampede in Abuja,
Port Harcourt and Minna in March 2014.
All the accused persons, including Moro, will face trial
for alleged Advance Fee Fraud, abuse of Public
Procurement Act, No. 65 of 2007, misconduct contrary
to Section 22(5) of the Independent Corrupt Practices Act
2000 and offence contrary to Section 15(2) (d) of the
Money Laundering ( Prohibition) Act 2011.
The Nation reported exclusively last week that  Ahmadu
has shut down three of his United Kingdom (UK)
companies.
He resigned as a director of another firm last month and
brought in new directors for another one based in
Jersey, a UK-dependant outpost located on Channel
Island.
Jersey is regarded as a tax haven and top offshore
financial centre.
Ahmadu and his firm, Drexel Tech Global Ltd,
coordinated the tragic recruitment in March 2014.
Mr Ahmadu filed for the strike-off one month after the
tragedy despite the commencement of a probe by the
Senate Committee on Internal Affairs. He never showed
up at the probe.
Drexel Tech Global was Registered in June 2011 with a
share capital of £1 (one pound sterling) and dissolved in
August 2014.
The registered directors of Drexel Tech Global are:
Ahmadu, 49, Nigerian of 63 Dennis Osadebey Crescent,
Apo Legislative Quarters, Abuja, Nigeria and Ms Theresa
Mahoney, 51, (American) of 6 Hitchcock circle, Simbury,
Connecticut, USA, 06070.
Drexel Tech Global Company’s account was filed as
dormant in June 2012 and 2013 financial years and then
dissolved through voluntary strike-off in August 2014
without a single taxation paid to the UK government.
Another of Ahmadu’s companies, Socket Works Ltd and
Socket Works Global Ltd, registered in the UK in March
and April 2013, were also shut down soon after.
Socket Works Global Ltd was closed down in October
2014 and Socket Works Ltd. in February 2015.
His other evasive attempts at operating from behind the
scene was not glamorous either. Ahmadu replaced
himself and Mrs Maryam Mahmood, 37, believed to be
his wife, as directors at Online Integrated Solutions Ltd
UK with two other people. He resigned from Online
Integrated Solutions Ltd. only last week when the EFCC
hunt became public. Mrs Mahmood left last November.
Ahmadu has, however, kept alive his interest in Gau
Limited, which he registered in the Uk in Jan 2015 and in
A2A International Ltd, which was registered in Jersey,
Channels Island in 2012. But his interest is represented
in the Jersey registered company by Online Integrated
Solutions Ltd.