After N37.1bn of “fraud,” Sadiya finally makes it to the EFCC headquarters.
Sadiya Umar-Farouq, a former minister of social development, disaster management, and humanitarian affairs, has finally offered herself up for questioning at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) headquarters in Abuja.
The former minister showed up at the EFCC headquarters on Monday morning. She is being investigated over the amount of N37,170,855,753.44, which was purportedly laundered when she was in charge through a contractor named James Okwete.
Umar-Farouq was scheduled to meet with the EFCC’s elite investigators at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday to discuss allegations of fraud, but he missed the appointment due to health issues.
The anti-graft agency invited the former minister, who worked under President Muhammadu Buhari, last week as a result of an investigation into her conduct in the ministry.
According to certain sources who spoke with Obasanjonews24 other officials who collaborated with her were also summoned on different days to give an overview of how the ministry’s operations were conducted over the previous six years.
On Monday morning, though, the troubled former minister wrote on X that she had just arrived at the commission’s headquarters to provide clarifications.
But the troubled former minister claimed in a post published on X on Monday morning that she had just arrived at the commission’s headquarters to provide clarifications.
“I have arrived at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) headquarters at my request in order to fulfill the anti-graft agency’s invitation to provide clarifications regarding certain matters that the commission is looking into,” the woman wrote.
She had denied involvement in the alleged crime in her earlier post on X.
