The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) claims it has not cleared anybody involved in the ongoing investigation into the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, which resulted in the suspension of Betta Edu as minister.
In January, President Bola Tinubu suspended Edu and Halima Shehu, the National Social Investment Programme Authority's (NSIPA) CEO.
Many Nigerians had complained that months after the president's order, there had been no update on the probe.
However, in the March edition of the agency's monthly e-Magazine titled; EFCC Alert, Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the anti-graft commission, stated that N30 billion had been recovered from the probe, while 50 banks were under investigation.
However, on Sunday, the anti-graft agency's spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, explained that the investigations that resulted in the recovery of N30 billion were not about people, but about the complex web of fraudulent activities in the system.
The anti-graft agency further stated that the recovered funds was part of fraudulent operations involving COVID-19 money, the World Bank loan, and the loot confiscated by Abacha and handed to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.
While sharing this to reporters in Abuja, he explained that the fund was released by the Federal Government to execute its poverty alleviation mandate.
Oyewale reiterated that the officials of the Humanitarian Ministry, including Edu, who were invited by the committee as part of the inquiry had not been cleared.
