{"id":116692,"date":"2025-03-07T02:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116692"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:10:47","slug":"efcc-grills-ex-women-affairs-minister-ohanenye-over-%e2%82%a6138m-fraud-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/efcc-grills-ex-women-affairs-minister-ohanenye-over-%e2%82%a6138m-fraud-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC grills ex-women affairs minister Ohanenye over \u20a6138m fraud allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are questioning a former Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohanenye, over alleged involvement in the misappropriation, violation of procurement processes, and diversion of public funds amounting to \u20a6138m.<\/p>\n<p>The funds were allegedly misappropriated during the disbursement of the 2023 budgeted allocation for the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>A top source within the commission disclosed to our correspondent that the former minister arrived at the EFCC headquarters around 11 a.m. on Thursday and was still being interrogated by operatives regarding her alleged involvement in the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The source said, \u201cInvestigators are questioning former Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, over her alleged role in the misappropriation, violation of procurement processes, and diversion of public funds totaling \u20a6138,413,253.89.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe arrived at the commission\u2019s headquarters around 11am on Thursday and is currently facing interrogators over her alleged involvement in the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations by the EFCC revealed that funds donated for the P-Bat Cares for Women Initiative were diverted for her personal enrichment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to obtain a reaction from the EFCC\u2019s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, proved abortive at the time of filing this report<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are questioning a former Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohanenye, over alleged involvement in the misappropriation, violation of procurement processes, and diversion&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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