The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the travel documents of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu and her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq.
The anti-graft agency also impounded the international passport of the suspended National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu.
The trio are being interrogated over allegations of financial crime levelled against them.
The passport seizure was part of the conditions for granting them administrative bail.
The travel papers are to be with the commission pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Edu, Umar-Farouq, and Shehu were grilled by the anti-graft agency over their activities in the ministry, particularly the disbursement of funds to beneficiaries of various programmes in the ministry.
Also, the EFCC quizzed the managing directors of three banks over alleged suspicious payments by top officials of the ministry under Umar-Farouq and Edu.
The banks were accused of refusing to raise “red flags” and gross involvement in suspicious transactions.
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