Npower News: Sustainable National Movement Urges President Bola Ahmed Tinubu To Forgive, Reinstate Betta Edu

According to Npower News, a group, Sustainable National Movement, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to forgive and reinstate the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu.

Founder of the group, Kayode Arimoro, made the call at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday 29th April 2024.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu suspended Betta Edu the minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in January 2024, following matters that has to do with misappropriation of public funds by Betta Edu authorised in her ministry.

According to Npower News, Betta Edu came under fire from Nigerians for requesting the payment of ₦585,200,000 into the personal bank account of a civil servant, who is the accountant in charge of grants for Vulnerable Nigerians.

Mr Kayode Arimoro, a United States-based Nigerian Human rights activist, argued that the suspension of Betta is escalating poverty in Nigeria and that many Nigerians are now vulnerable.

Mr Kayode Arimoro said millions of vulnerable Nigerians who relied on the ministry for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation especially beneficiaries of Npower, Conditional Cash Transfer, and Government Enterprise And Empowerment Programme (GEEP) for survival have been subjected to abject poverty since Betta Edu was suspended.

"Getting the ministry’s working right would have solved Nigeria’s problems by over 70 per cent, with one hundred and thirty three million people living below the poverty line and an additional ten million people thrown into poverty between January and April 2024 according to World Bank Macro Poverty Outlook for Nigeria: April 2024.

“That was the least deliverable that Edu promised to deliver, and she was all hands-on deck from her first day in office,” Mr Kayode Arimoro said.

Mr Kayode Arimoro said Betta Edu was not guilty of the fraud allegation against her and that some corrupt people planned to force her out of office.

Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/group-urges-tinubu-to-pardon-reinstate-betta-edu/