Friday, November 20, 2015

EFCC arrests erstwhile Permanent Secretary over corruption allegation



The immediate past permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Nkechi Ejele, is currently being interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for her role in the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) appropriated to the Ministry in 2013 and 2014.
Sources at the Commission, disclosed that Mrs. Ejele arrived the headquarters of the agency at about 10am, on Thursday.
She is still being interrogated by operatives of the commission.
Mrs. Ejele was deployed from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (Manpower Development Unit) to the Ministry Tourism, Culture & National Orientation on March 6, 2013.
She remained in that ministry until she was removed by President Muhammadu Buhari on November 10, 2015.

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