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EFCC May Arrest Sadiya As Ex-Minister Shuns Interrogators’ Invitation

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Ibrahim Bununu

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are considering the possibility of obtaining an arrest warrant against the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, Daily Trust learnt last night.

The development, it was gathered from impeccable sources, followed the former minister’s absence at the headquarters of the anti-graft agency located at Jabi, Abuja on Wednesday.

Umar-Farouq, who was billed to face the crack detectives of the EFCC around 10:00am over alleged fraud, was being probed over the sum of N37,170,855,753.44 that was allegedly laundered under her watch through a contractor, James Okwete.

Daily Trust had reported that the former minister, who served under the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, was invited last week by the anti-graft agency following a probe that was launched into her activities in the ministry.

The officials had also told Daily Trust that some other officials who worked with her had equally been invited for different days in order to provide an insight into how the affairs of the ministry were run in the last six years

The officials had also told Daily Trust that some other officials who worked with her had equally been invited for different days in order to provide an insight into how the affairs of the ministry were run in the last six years

Efforts to get official reaction from the spokesman of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, proved abortive as several calls to his mobile phone rang unanswered. A text message sent to him was yet to be replied as at when filing this report last night.

Daily Trust

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