EFCC Uncovers Missing ₦17bn In Humanitarian
Ministry
Operatives
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have uncovered a fresh fraud of
N17bn linked to the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster
Management and Social Development.
This is
coming after EFCC officials who were originally working on the alleged N585
million fraud, which led to the suspension of Minister of Humanitarian Affairs,
Betta Edu, were shocked to uncover some previously unreported cases totaling
N17bn, while, investigations are continuing on the matters involving the former
minister in the ministry during the administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari, Hajia Sadiya Umar-Farouk, and the suspended Chief Executive Officer of
the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Hajia Halima Shehu.
The
EFCC said, Shehu had been cooperating well with investigators and that N30
billion of the N37bn traced to Umar-Farouk has been recovered.
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