Senator Abba Moro, the former Minister of Interior, was dismissed and acquitted of fraud charges by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday.
The accusations stemmed from the bungled 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Abba Moro and three other people in 2016 on an 11-count indictment that included charges of collecting money under false pretenses, procurement fraud, and money laundering, among other things.
Following a no-case submission in 2020, Justice Dimgba invalidated seven of the eleven-count accusations against Abba Moro and his co-defendants, and eventually exonerated the former minister in the remaining four counts.
In the same verdict, the court found the second defendant guilty of count.
In the same ruling, the court found the second defendant guilty of count four of the charge and cleared the third defendant of counts two, four, five, and eleven.
The EFCC charged Abba Moro, now a Senator representing Benue South, together with Mrs Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, and Mr Femi Alayebami, a Deputy Director in the ministry, in 2016.