EFCC: How N75 million was recovered from ex-minister’s wife
January 27, 2021
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s investigator, Bello Hamma-Adama, on Wednesday, revealed how N75 million was recovered from Halima Tanimu Turaki, wife of a former minister in the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government.
Tanimu Turaki was a minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs between 2013 and 2015 and also served as the supervising minister for the Federal Ministry of Labour between 2014 and 2015.
Mr. Hamma-Adama, the fifth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Mrs. Turaki, made the revelation before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The EFCC had arraigned the former minister (first defendant) alongside his former Special Assistant, Sampson Okpetu (second defendant), and two firms (Samtee Essentials Ltd and Pasco Investment Ltd), on 16 counts of money laundering.
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The wife of a former Nigerian minister was paid N75 million from public funds without executing any contract, an investigator told a federal court on Wednesday.
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told the Federal High Court in Abuja that Halima Turaki, wife of a former minister, Tanimu Turaki, was paid the N75 million from funds earmarked by her husband’s ministry for a sensitisation project.
Testifying as the 12th prosecution witness in Mr Turaki’s trial on money laundering charges, Bello Hamma-Adama said Mrs Turaki confirmed to the EFCC that she never executed any contract for the ministry.
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has approved the redeployment of four permanent secretaries in the interest of efficiency and better service delivery.
Ganduje redeploys 4 permanent secretaries
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Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State.
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has approved the redeployment of four permanent secretaries in the interest of efficiency and better service delivery.
Ganduje said in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar in Kano on Saturday that effective governance and service delivery remained crucial to his administration.
The governor also approved the appointment of Sani Kofar-Mata, as a new permanent secretary.
He said that while Kofar-Mata assumed duty at the ministry of Rural and Community Development, Hajiya Mu’azatu Dutse had been deployed to the Ministry of Special Duties.
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