Civil Rights Advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has asked the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu to resign and submit herself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to explain how any financial rule under operation in public offices, allows for public fund to be warehoused in a private individual’s bank account.
A statement signed by the National Coordinator of the group, Emmanuel Onwuibiko, calls on the President and the EFCC to use a universal yardstick in the enforcement of the anti-graft laws since the law shouldn’t be made to be afraid of certain individuals because they are senior national figures in the ruling All Progressives Congress.
HURIWA maintains that if EFCC can’t interrogate serving ministers, then the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation should step aside to allow for unfettered investigation.