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A group, Youths Vanguard For Democracy and Good Governance, has called on the Federal Government to make an investigative report of the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commissions on the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Welfare, Dr Betta Edu, public.
Betta Edu was suspended in January over an alleged N585 million scandal in her ministry.
President Tinubu further directed a comprehensive inquiry into the alleged N585 million scandal in the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation vowing to “decisively punish” those involved in any breaches and infractions unravelled during the investigations.
This was contained in an open letter to the President signed by the group’s National President and National Secretary, Abdulkadir Abubakar and Adelola Poju, respectively.
The statement partly read, “If truly there was a negligible financial crime committed on Betta Edu’s part as all approvals came from the Presidency, then we enjoin Mr President to act swiftly as a father figure and reconsider the subsisting suspension of Betta Edu, and also make public the report of the EFFC investigation, to clear the name of this exceptional lady, whose passion to work is unrivalled.
“For us, it has become a miscarriage of justice for Betta Edu to remain at home with her matter undecided for more than 11 weeks.”
“It is without gainsaying that one of the major spinoffs and accelerants to the many humanitarian issues bedevilling us, remains the subsisting suspension of the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu.”
