The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrested the National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Hajia Halima Shehu.
Shehu was arrested for alleged financial malpractices hours after her suspension from office.
Recall that Shehu was suspended from office by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, January 2.
Sources in the EFCC revealed Shehu had been interrogated for hours by operatives of the agency in her office located at Maitama, Abuja before her arrest on Tuesday.
Meanwhille, as of the time of filing this report, the Presidency, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation have yet to make any official statement about the alleged suspension of the NSIPA National Coordinator.
Shehu was expected to handover starter packs to victims of the kidney harvest at Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Tuesday.
The event was suspended following an alleged directive to that effect through a letter purportedly signed by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu.
Men of the anti-graft agency later stormed her office at Taraba Crescent in Maitama, to engage her in certain interrogations.
According to Vanguard, the secret meeting between Shehu and the EFCC operatives, which began at 9 a.m., ended around 4:30 p.m. with the former accompanying the EFCC officials to an unknown location.
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