The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has been ordered to report back to the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee headquarters, Jabi, Abuja on Tuesday, January 9.
Edu was suspended on Monday by President Bola Tinubu over an alleged N585m scandal.
The embattled minister was invited by the anti-graft physique consistent with Tinubu's order to conduct a complete investigation protecting her actions throughout the ministry, a prime supply within the anti-graft committee informed reporters.
A senior official of the EFCC confirmed the event in a phone interview with our correspondent, saying on Monday: “Betta Edu has been instructed to report back to the fee (EFCC) tomorrow.
The PUNCH stories that Edu's predecessor, Sadiya Farouq, continues to be interrogated by EFCC interrogators at 6.40pm on Monday over allegations that she laundered N37.1 billion whereas serving as a minister in former President Muhammadu Buhari's cupboard.
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