In a bid to get to the bottom of how humongous cash was moved from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to private hands, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday extended its probe to directors and other key officials of the ministry and its agencies.
The top officials were summoned by the anti-graft agency to meet face to face with the suspended Minister, Betta Edu, the suspended Coordinator of the National Social Intervention Programme, Halima Shehu and top bank officials, whose vaults were used in custodying the huge cash without reporting to the authorities in keeping with financial reporting protocols.
A competent source told newsmen that the summoning of the directors was to determine their roles in the ongoing investigation, which has exposed deep collaboration between the banks and officials of the embattled ministry in the movement of cash beyond the threshold permitted by law.
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