{"id":13215,"date":"2024-01-03T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13215"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:04:08","slug":"breaking-buharis-minister-shuns-efcc-invitation-over-n37-1bn-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/03\/breaking-buharis-minister-shuns-efcc-invitation-over-n37-1bn-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Buhari\u2019s Minister Shuns EFCC Invitation Over N37.1bn Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has snubbed an invitation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to answer questions about an alleged N37.1 billion fraud that occurred during her tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Umar-Farouq, who left office in 2023, was scheduled to appear before investigators at the EFCC headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, at 10:00 am on Wednesday. However, despite waiting for over eight hours, she failed to show up and offered no official explanation for her absence.<\/p>\n<p>Documents reveal that the invitation was linked to an ongoing investigation into the alleged laundering of N37.1 billion through a contractor, James Okwete, during Umar-Farouq\u2019s time in office.<\/p>\n<p>A source within the EFCC, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the interrogation team had to conclude their day at 6:00 pm after it became clear that the former minister would not be arriving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just closed from work now because she didn\u2019t show up today, and it\u2019s 6 pm already. It\u2019s certain that she\u2019s never going to show up today,\u201d the Punch Newspaper reported the source as saying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has snubbed an invitation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to answer questions about an alleged N37.1 billion fraud that occurred during her tenure. Umar-Farouq, who left office in 2023, was scheduled to appear before investigators at the EFCC headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[223,59],"class_list":["post-13215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-efcc","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13217,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions\/13217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}