Breaking: President Tinubu suspends the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, from office with immediate effect.

President directs the EFCC to conduct a thorough investigation into all aspects of the financial transactions involving the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, as well as one or more agencies thereunder.

Full Statement:


PRESIDENT TINUBU SUSPENDS MINISTER OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION FROM OFFICE

In line with his avowed commitment to uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in the management of the commonwealth of Nigerians, President Bola Tinubu suspends the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, from office with immediate effect.

The President further directs the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to conduct a thorough investigation into all aspects of the financial transactions involving the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, as well as one or more agencies thereunder.

The suspended Minister is hereby directed to hand over to the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, and she is further directed by the President to fully cooperate with the investigating authorities as they conduct their investigation.

Furthermore, the President has tasked a panel that is headed by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance to, among other functions, conduct a comprehensive diagnostic on the financial architecture and framework of the social investment programmes with a view to conclusively reforming the relevant institutions and programmes in a determined bid to eliminate all institutional frailties for the exclusive benefit of disadvantaged households and win back lost public confidence in the initiative.

These directives of the President take immediate effect.

Chief Ajuri Ngelale

Special Adviser to the President

(Media & Publicity)

January 8, 2024

That's the right thing to do. This should make the other Ministers sit up if they love their jobs.

I Love Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The right decision considering the current circumstances. Like i have always said, the federal public service is not the private sector where the CEO can do as they like. The public service is governed by laws, rules, regulations and over one thousand extant circulars. People without public service knowledge who gets appointed as ministers and heads of agencies must be extremely careful and very cooperative with the civil servants they meet on ground or else, they will run into trouble quickly.

I like Betta Edu and really wished this did not happen to her but the serious violations observed from those approvals and the fraudulent intention behind the diversion of over N500m to a private account are too much to be ignored. I hope other newly appointed political office holders would learn from her mistake. Learn the rules before approving anything. When in doubt, seek and take the advice of the more experienced civil servants. If Betty had listened to the wise counsel of the Accountant General, she won't be in this mess.

Very good.

Let her remain suspended till investigation is completed. Tinubu must not tow the part of Buhari when dealing with corruption.

The best way to go about it.

As expected.
The challenge for Tinubu now is keeping to this template because I am pretty sure he's going to be busy with scandals and corrupt deeds of his appointees as the weeks,months and years go by.
The question is:when the corrupt deed comes nearer home or cronies,will the same sledge hammer be used or he would formulate a new standard where just the broom will be used?

she goofed big time, money she suppose steal small small she won steal am once, if she had succeed, she would have end up in abroad




progress of this country is not praying solution, it's integrity driven Solution

Better for Beta to stay out of office until the investigation is completed

Better.

Confirm,others go sit-up..if tinubu do well I applaud am

Yes right call

If no achievement atleast let's be using all this one to play

But at the end the money we won't know the whereabout

Long overdue. Nigeria is highly corrupt. Just fight for yourself in this country and don't rely on any government to help out. This thread may help some youths trying to make money online; https://www.nairaland.com/3430037/what-make-money-online

This is commendable. I hope she's found innocent and returned to her office soon.
When you fight corruption, corruption will fight back.
Betta Edu only reported the illegal movement of N44B in her ministry.
That's her offence.

I lov Tinubu for this .. pay us NPOWER

I know that will later happen

Myhusband:
she goofed big time, money she suppose steal small small she won steal am once, if she had succeed, she would have end up in abroad




progress of this country is not praying solution, it's integrity driven Solution

There is nothing like goofing.
I bet it's the norm in other ministries,it just seems as if Beta didn't play her cards well and was trying to play holy or smart,that's why her enemies dug deep and came up with something that stuck home.
There are other ministers far more corrupt than her,using different formats to steak humongous sums from Nigeria.If they don't allow the loot to spread round,just a little digging and paying the right people for information would also unearth skeletons in their cupboards.

Thief dey suspend thief

We joke alot in this country!

Ask yourself why she had the mind to steal in the first place? Simple because tinubu is an ole too

Will she have stolen if Peter obi was in charge? Never!

This is the way to go. Thanks to Tinubu for responding to public outcry. Clueless Buhari would not have bothered. Meanwhile, Dr Beta Edu is a disgrace to women. Her pretenses, corruption, lies and noise making have been exposed.

Pot and kettle.

This woman just played into her enemies hands.

I used to admire this woman, the way she is young and doing it but this gross financial misconduct, though expected but came too soon is absolute turn off.

Her suspension won't mean anything to others, corruption runs in the vein now.

Tinubu Suspended Halima last or two weeks, Sadiya Umar Farooq will not go alone, who comes with equity must come with clean hand. Tinubu has no option

She bleeped up

Right thing to do. Many felt it was late in coming and tarred the Tinubu Administration.

Good one. A listening president

That's my president

Wike please spend wisely oh cos u have more enemies than friends

Oh no

The day obedient support tinubu is the day I would stop supporting him