Hajia Halima Shehu, the former National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged financial malpractices, just hours after her suspension.
Shehu was suspended from office by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday.
She was said to have been interrogated for hours by operatives of the EFCC in her office located at Maitama, Abuja before her arrest on Tuesday.
At the time of filing this report, there have been no official statements from the Presidency, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation regarding the alleged suspension of the NSIPA National Coordinator.
Shehu was supposed to distribute starter packs to victims of the kidney harvest in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Tuesday.
The event was suspended following an alleged directive to that effect through a letter purportedly signed by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu.
Men of the anti-graft agency later stormed her office at Taraba Crescent in Maitama, to engage her in certain interrogations.
According to Vanguard, the secret meeting between Shehu and the EFCC operatives, which began at 9 a.m.,ended around 4:30 p.m. with the former accompanying the EFCC officials to an unknown location.
Recall that before her recent confirmation by the Senate, Hajia Shehu was the National Programme Coordinator of the National Conditional Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
