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Farooq Kperogi, a Nigerian-American professor and renowned writer, has asked 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.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that Edu is under fire for approving the payment of N585,198 million into a private account of Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu.<\/p>\n

But reacting to the development, Kperogi, in an essay he shared Saturday through X handle, said if Tinubu did not fire Edu immediately, the President would have lost the morals to fight corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, some of the crimes Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s people committed in his eight-year reign are reappearing now. It has now come to light, for example, that Betta Chimaobim Edu, the successor to Sadiya Umar Farouq, has started the same pattern of theft by her predecessor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a leaked December 20, 2023, memo to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Edu instructed that money designated for \u201cvulnerable groups in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun and Lagos,\u201d which amounted to more than N500 million, should be paid into the private UBA account of one Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu in violation of Nigeria\u2019s public sector financial regulation law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regulation says public money should not, under any circumstance, be paid into private bank accounts. \u201cAny officer who pays public money into a private bank account is deemed to have done so with fraudulent intentions,\u201d section 713 of the act says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a momentous moment for Tinubu. If he does not fire Edu forthwith and bring her to justice, he has already lost the moral high ground to try Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s corrupt honchos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

N585m scandal: Sack Betta Edu if you are serious about fighting corruption \u2013 Kperogi tells Tinubu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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