The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the embattled National Co-ordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, who was arrested in connection with an alleged ₦44billion money laundering probe.
A spokesperson for the Commission, Dele Oyewale, confirmed that she was released last night and mandated to report at the EFCC Headquarters every day while the investigation continued.
Shehu was suspended earlier this week by President Bola Tinubu when it was learnt that the ₦44bn was allegedly moved from NSIPA’s accounts into private and corporate accounts linked to persons serving as fronts.
Before Shehu’s appointment, she worked as the National Coordinator of the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
She also served with the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under Sadiya Umar-Farouk who is being investigated for 37billion fraud.
