- Earlier , the former Minister Sadiya Umar Farouq apologized to the EFCC for not appearing to answer questions about alleged N37.1 billion laundering during her tenure.
- The EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, explained that Umar-Farouq sent a letter to the anti-graft agency informing them of her health challenges
Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the former minister of social development, disaster management, and humanitarian affairs, has finally appeared 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.
“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.
Recall that the Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, on Wednesday, shunned an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probing the N37.1bn allegedly laundered during her tenure in office through a contractor, James Okwete.
Umar-Farouq kept interrogators waiting for over eight hours on Wednesday without an official communication to the commission as to why she didn’t honour the invitation.
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