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Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouk, risks arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following her failure, on Wednesday, to honour an invitation by the anti-graft agency.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arrest the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social
Halima Shehu has been released, but she is still answering our interrogators, and she has been mandated to meet with investigators every day as the investigation is ongoing.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released Halima Shehu, the suspended National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), after questioning her. She was grilled about N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, which was led by former Minister Sadiya Umar-Farouk. This was confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale on Thursday.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained the National Co-ordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, over the ongoing probe into the N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, under former Minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouk.