Sadiya Finally Honoured EFCC Invitation Over N37.1bn 'Fraud

Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the former minister of humanitarian affairs

Minister was invited for questioning concerning an ongoing investigation into an alleged N37.1bn fraud

Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the former minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management, and social development, 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 office on Monday morning. She is being investigated over the amount of N37,170,855,753.44, which was purportedly laundered while she was in charge through a contractor named James Okwete.

“I have, at my behest, arrived at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to honour the invitation by the anti-graft agency to offer clarifications in respect of some issues that the commission is investigating,” she wrote on her X handle.