Farooq Kperogi, a Nigerian-American professor and famend author, has requested President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, over an alleged N585,198,500.00 million corruption scandal.
Arogidigba International Journal stories that Edu is below hearth for approving the fee of N585,198 million into a personal account of Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu.
However reacting to the event, Kperogi, in an essay he shared Saturday via X deal with, mentioned if Tinubu didn’t hearth Edu instantly, the President would have misplaced the morals to struggle corruption.
“Sadly, among the crimes Muhammadu Buhari’s individuals dedicated in his eight-year reign are reappearing now. It has now come to gentle, for instance, that Betta Chimaobim Edu, the successor to Sadiya Umar Farouq, has began the identical sample of theft by her predecessor.
“In a leaked December 20, 2023, memo to the Accountant-Normal of the Federation, Edu instructed that cash designated for “susceptible teams in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun and Lagos,” which amounted to greater than N500 million, needs to be paid into the non-public UBA account of 1 Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu in violation of Nigeria’s public sector monetary regulation regulation.
“The regulation says public cash mustn’t, below any circumstance, be paid into non-public financial institution accounts. “Any officer who pays public cash into a personal checking account is deemed to have completed so with fraudulent intentions,” part 713 of the act says.
“It is a momentous second for Tinubu. If he doesn’t hearth Edu forthwith and convey her to justice, he has already misplaced the ethical excessive floor to strive Muhammadu Buhari’s corrupt honchos,” he mentioned.