Baskadia

Due to ongoing investigations into problems inside the ministry, the passports of Betta Edu, the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, and Sadiya Umar-Farouq, her predecessor, have been seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. As of the time this report was filed at 7 p.m., Edu, who arrived at the EFCC offices in Abuja at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, was still being questioned by the commission's investigators. It was revealed that managing directors of three commercial banks were also questioned on Tuesday over the N44 billion fraud that was discovered in the ministry, during the EFCC's interrogation of the suspended minister. The Edu controversy erupted when a leaked letter disclosed that the suspended minister had instructed Oluwatoyin Madein, the Accountant-General of the Federation, to transfer N585 millio