N37bn Fraud: EFCC Quizzes Ex-Humanitarian Minister Sadiya

BY GODWIN OBI

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday quizzed ex-Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, over an alleged laundering of N37.1 billion

Farouq was still at the office of the EFCC as of 6pm on Monday as she was still being quizzed by interrogators.

The ex-minister had shunned previous invitations by the anti-graft agency but later explained that she would honour the invite.

“I remain proud to have served my country as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with every sense of responsibility and will defend my actions, stewardship and programmes during my tenure whenever I am called upon to do so,” she was quoted to have said.

The former Minister had earlier failed to honour the invitation of the anti-graft agency on the alleged laundering of N37.1 billion during her tenure.

She, however, wrote a letter to apologise to the Commission over her failure to honour their invitation.

The spokesman of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, had told Channels Television that the former minister wrote to the anti-graft, explaining that she is not disposed for now to appear before the commission.