Anti-graft Agency, EFCC on Tuesday began grilling suspended minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation , BETTA EDU over alleged N585m disbursement fraud.
EDU arrived at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Jabi, Abuja, at 11am.
The embattled minister came alongside her aides and lawyer.
Her appearance came a day after she was suspended by President BOLA TINUBU.
EDU is said to be involved in a N585m disbursement scandal involving the humanitarian affairs ministry, which has since attracted widespread attention from rights groups and activists accross the country.
The predicament of the 37-year-old was worsened when the Accountant General of the Federation, OLUWATOYIN MADEIN , confirmed that although her office received a request from the humanitarian ministry to make certain payments her office did not act on it.
On Monday, the President announced the suspension of EDU with immediate effect, making his party’s ex-national women leader the first to be removed from his 48-man cabinet inaugurated last August.
The President also ordered EFCC Chairman, OLA OKUKOYEDE to conduct a thorough investigation into all aspects of the financial transactions involving the ministry and one or more agencies thereunder.
Before her ministerial appointment last August, EDU , 37 was Cross River State Commissioner for Health and the National Women Leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
She was a prominent figure in the campaign train of Tinubu.
The EFCC quizzed EDU’s predecessor, SADIYA FAROUQ, on Monday, over an alleged laundering of N37.1 billion during her tenure as a minister.
She was allowed to go home after a 12 hour long interrogation and is expected to return on Tuesday for further clarifications on sundry issues that the Commission flagged in the course of its preliminary investigations.