A law enforcement agent must think like a criminal to catch a criminal.
This may be the reason the international passports of the embattled current and past ministers have been seized.
You never can tell when an allegation may will turn out to be true, or when a culprit to a crime may decide to elope.
The international passports of both the current and past ministers of the Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Ministry have been seized.
Both international passports were seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
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Really, it is always interesting to see allegations of financial malfeasance being given priority in Nigeria.
EFCC Seized Betta Edu’s International Passport
It was just on Monday, that Nigerians in their numbers cried out to President Bola Tinubu to remove Betta Edu from office.
A day after, the EFCC summoned her to give answers to the ₦585.2 million allegations leveled against her.
Edu left the anti-graft commission’s office without her international passport on Tuesday.
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Her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, had been quizzed by investigators for 12 hours on Monday.
The probe was concerning the ₦37.1 billion allegedly laundered during her tenure in office through a contractor, James Okwete.
Umar-Farouq’s international passport was also seized as part of her bail conditions before she was subsequently released late on Monday night.
“The EFCC has seized the international passports of Sadiya Shehu and Betta Edu.
“We have also seized Mrs Halima Shehu’s passport pending the conclusion of investigations,” the anti-graft agency said.
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The scandal involving Edu burst open after a leaked memo revealed that the suspended minister directed the payment of ₦585.2 million into a private account.
She claimed the money was meant for vulnerable groups in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun, and Lagos states.
The EFCC does not want to risk having the ministers leave Nigeria while they still have questions to answer.
