Taraba SEMA boss Audu seeks probe, denies relief diversion allegations

The Executive Secretary of the Taraba State Emergency Management Agency, Echuseh Audu, has formally requested an probe into allegations that she diverted alleviation materials meant for susceptible residents successful the state.

DAILY POST gathered that Audu personally reported herself to respective information and investigative bodies, including the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Office of the Special Adviser connected Security to the Governor, and the Taraba State Ministry of Justice, calling for a broad and transparent probe.

The SEMA boss, who supervises the organisation of humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons and low-income households, besides denied the allegations and said an autarkic probe is indispensable to wide her name.

In a telephone interrogation connected Sunday, Audu told DAILY POST that her determination to taxable herself to authorities was aimed astatine protecting the integrity of the bureau and preventing immoderate presumption of guilt.

“An allegation was made; keeping soundless by instrumentality means I person consented. We person worked truthful hard to physique a estimation for Taraba SEMA and to enactment the vulnerable,” she said.<...