The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday grilled a former Minister of Social Development, Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar-Farouk, for hours over allegations of fraud.
The immediate past minister, is facing allegation of laundering N37, 170,855,753.44 through a contractor, James Okwete.
She had asked for a three-week grace before answering EFCC’s invitation, but the agency granted her only three days grace.
In order to avoid being declared wanted, the ex-Minister reported at the EFCC’s headquarters. “She has complied with our 72-hour ultimatum, her investigation by our team has started,” a top source confirmed.
In what appeared a confidence-building tweet, the ex-Minister said: ”I have, at my behest, arrived at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to honour the invitation by the anti-graft agency to offer clarifications in respect of some issues that the commission is investigating,”
But in line with the new policy of the commission, Sadiya was asked to go home on bail for another round of interrogation today.
The EFCC had a week ago interrogated Mrs Halima Shehu, the suspended National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), being supervised by the ministry
