Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu is in fresh trouble.

Sources said official documents have revealed that she approved funds for flight tickets and airport taxis for members of her team to travel from Abuja to Kogi, a state with no airport.

Our sources added that she approved N200,000 for flight tickets and N20,000 for airport taxi for each of her 13-man team to travel from Abuja to Kogi, while she approved N300,000 for herself, though no amount was approved for airport taxi for her. This makes it a total of N3,160,000 for flight tickets and airport taxis to travel directly to a state without an airport.

We gathered that the team spent N4,374,500 on flight tickets, airport taxis, daily transport allowance and local running for the period of time spent in Kogi alone but in total, she approved the sum of N226,188,500 million for Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation ahead of the November 11, 2023 governorship elections which includes funds disbursed to vulnerable people in the three states.

She got into trouble recently after leaked documents showed that she directed the payment of N585.189 million grant meant for vulnerable groups in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun and Lagos States into a private account owned by one Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu.

However, she has been suspended with immediate effect from office by President Bola Tinubu.