Immediate past Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has responded to the invitation of the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and is currently at the national headquarters of the commission in Abuja.
Sadiya, in a post via X on Monday morning, said she had just arrived at the commission’s headquarters to offer clarifications.
“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.
In her previous post on X, she had denied any complicity in the alleged crime.
Umar-Farouk is being investigated for alleged involvement of fraud amounting to over the sum of N37,170,855,753.44 that was allegedly laundered under her watch through a contractor, James Okwete, arrived at the EFCC office on Monday morning.
She was invited by the EFCC to appear last Wednesday over alleged fraud, but was absent, citing health challenges.
Some other officials who worked with her had equally been invited for different days to provide an insight into how the affairs of the ministry were run in the last six years.
