The corruption scandal rocking Nigeria affects the National Social Investment Program Agency (NSIPA), an organization fighting poverty, suspended on Friday January 12 due to accusations of embezzlement of public funds.
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Money transfers from this national social assistance program were to go to the poorest people in Nigeria, but also to young people who were supposed to receive school meals.
But that was without taking into account suspicions of corruption. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and the Fight against Poverty, Betta Edu, is accused by the opposition of having misappropriated this fund. The People’s Democratic Party speaks of $50 million embezzled, part of which would have been directly paid into the minister’s bank account. She has since been suspended by President Tinubu.
But the opposition does not stop there: it is also demanding the departure of the Minister of the Interior whom it accuses of having participated in this embezzlement.
This Saturday, Bola Tinubu simply suspended all programs managed by the National Social Investment Program Agency for at least six weeks, said a presidential spokesperson who added that an investigation is underway. course. In the meantime, the funds are frozen and beneficiaries will not receive their payments.