Ex-Immigration Comptroller-General denies knowledge of 2014 recruitment

A former Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr David Parradang, on Wednesday, told a Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was not aware of the 2014 recruitment exercise in the service.
Parradang, the first prosecution witness, made this known at the commencement of the trial of former Interior Minister, Mr Abba Moro.

The NIS boss told the court that he was shocked when he saw reports in the media about a recruitment exercise by the service.
“In September, I was referred to a publication in one of the dailies that NIS was recruiting officers into assistant superintendent cadre, inspectorate and assistant inspectorate cadre.
“I was surprised about the recruitment exercise because as a comptroller-general, I was not aware of it,” he said.
Parradang further told the court that he called two board members to ask whether they were aware of any recruitment advert for the NIS, but they too said they were not aware.
At this point, the defendants objected to his evidence, saying that it was mere hearsay.
Moro’s counsel, Chris Uche, in his objection, said that by rules of evidence, a witness could not give evidence as to what he was told but only on what he knows.
The prosecuting counsel, Mr Aliyu Yusuf, attempted to tender a letter written by the comptroller-general to the board as evidence but this was also objected to by the defence.