Go Beyond Betta Edu, Fish Out Every Individual That Partook In The Theft Of Nigeria’s Collective Patrimony, CUPP Tells Tinubu 

Mobolaji Michael 

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to go beyond the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu and fish out anyone who is connected with or may have participated in the stealing of the nation’s collective patrimony. 

Making the call today was the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) via a statement by its National Secretary, High Chief Peter Ameh.  

The group expressed the belief that the suspended Minister could not have carried out the alleged heist without the backing of a stronger and perhaps high-ranking member or members of the present government.

According to CUPP, the entire issue surrounding the palliative and the larger Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has become a sore thumb in both this government and the previous government.  

“The former minister in the ministry, Sadiya Umar is still under probe for allegedly embezzling close to forty billion naira before the present minister is fingered for her alleged ignoble role in the transfer of five hundred and eighty-five million naira to a private bank account.

“CUPP does not really believe in giving people fish to eat, which the ministry stands for, but in teaching people how to fish and become self-sustaining. CUPP imagines what the budgets of over five hundred billion would provide in the areas of cottage industries with the attendant employment it will generate, or farm settlements that will spring up, food produced, and employment that will go with it.

“The federal government should rethink the role and mandate of the ministry and save the nation from this embarrassment”, CUPP advised.  

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