{"id":10805,"date":"2024-01-07T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/presidency-opens-up-on-tinubus-minister-betta-edus-n585m-scandal-reveals-next-line-of-action\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T16:02:27","slug":"presidency-opens-up-on-tinubus-minister-betta-edus-n585m-scandal-reveals-next-line-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/presidency-opens-up-on-tinubus-minister-betta-edus-n585m-scandal-reveals-next-line-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency opens up on Tinubu\u2019s minister, Betta Edu\u2019s N585m scandal, reveals next line of action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Presidency has said the appropriate authorities are investigating the financial irregularity involving the transfer of N585.189 million by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said appropriate action would be taken after the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matter is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAppropriate Action will be taken thereafter,\u201d he told Daily Trust.<\/p>\n<p>About N585.189 million, meant for the vulnerable in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun, and Lagos states, was reportedly diverted into a private account.<\/p>\n<p>This led to widespread outrage and a call for Edu\u2019s sack and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral document signed by Edu and directed to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the minister directed the disbursement of N585.189 million into one Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu\u2019s private account.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked document revealed that the money was paid into Oniyelu\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the widespread outrage, Edu, in a statement by her Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Rasheed Zubair, said the payment followed due process.<\/p>\n<p>Presidency opens up on Tinubu\u2019s minister, Betta Edu\u2019s N585m scandal, reveals next line of action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has said the appropriate authorities are investigating the financial irregularity involving the transfer of N585.189 million by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4960,15,466],"tags":[4962,4961,180,26],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betta-edu","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-betta","tag-edu","tag-news","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}