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Sadiya Umar Farouq
Sadiya Umar Farouq
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 August 2019
Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons
	In office; September 2016 – July 2019
Personal details
Born	5 November 1974 (age 50); Zurmi, Zamfara State
Nationality	Nigerian
Political party	All Progressives Congress
Education	Ahmadu Bello University

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Sadiya Umar Farouq (born 5 November 1974), is a Nigerian politician and the current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and social development.^[1]^[2]

Appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in July 2019,^[3] Farouq is by age the youngest minister in the current federal cabinet. She served as Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) from October 2016 to August 2019.

Her work with President Buhari dates back to Buhari's days as the leader and presidential candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change when Farouq was the national treasurer of CPC and later national treasurer of the All Progressives Congress.^[1]

In December 2019, Farouq was queried by the office of the president for exercising powers beyond her official briefs by employing more aides than officially approved and delaying the monthly stipend of N-Power volunteers, a social intervention program of the federal government.^[4]

Education

FGGC Gusau^[1]
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.^[5]

Corruption allegations

Cash transfer programme allegations

The conditional cash transfer regime has been plagued by inconsistencces and duplication of beneficiaries. The CTC register contained name of nonexistent persons, and the monies supposedly received by these people are routed to a pool managed by some cronies of highly placed official of the .^[6]

Allegedly embezzled money

The Minister of humanitarian Affairs ans Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq has turned the National emergency management agency (NEMA) and Nort East Development Commission (NEDC) to her automated teller machine, where found are taken to her conveniences, a source at the management of the two agencies has been embrolled in multi billion of naira corruption scandals under the supervision of Sadiya Umar Farouq. Sahara reporters, a source at the Ministry said "the Minister has turned both agencies to her ATM where she collected money at any times. She took over the entire Ministry found. She didn't allow the NEMA DG, Mustapha Habib Ahmed and his NEDC counterpart Mustapha Goni Alkali, to work. "Both agencies currently have over 500 abandoned projects, Sadiya Farouq turned them to where she can walk to pluck money and go away. All founds meant for political compensation by the APC government in North East are mainly from both Agencies especially NEDC.^[7]

Allegedly use public found to campaign for her husband

A group coalition of APC accused Sadiya Umar Farouq of diverting government founds to bribe the Bauchi APC delegate to nominate her husband, as governorship candidates of the party. Sahara reporters in Bauchi, on Monday Yusuf Abdullahi Ajiya the Leader of the coalition alleged the Minister was using public money to bribe the APC delegates to select her husband. Ajiya said Sadiya Umar had enlisted APC party delegates as beneficiaries of the federal government survival founds initiative instead of the downtrodden in the society. He said it was unlawful for the Minister to convert humanitarian assistance to campaign found. It has come to our notice that the Minister is using survival funds to induce delegates to choose her husband in the governorship primaries. She collected the names and account details of delegates in the name of survival founds which supposed to be for less privileged instead of delegates. ^[8]

School feeding fraud

The ICPC investigate Sadiya Umar Farouq for school feeding fraud during the covid-19 lockdown ended up in her private bank account. The Minister said in August that the federal government spent 500million to feed pupils during the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of covid-19 in the country. But ICPC investigate that the 2.5 billion was not use to feed the pupils.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Hajiya "Sadiya Umar Farouq" biography: Buhari youngest cabinet minister profile". BBC News Pidgin. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^ "FG will address plight of poor, vulnerable Nigerians despite economic challenges – Minister". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
^ "Sadiya Farouq: Group lauds Buhari's appointment of Minister". Vanguard News. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
^ "EXCLUSIVE: Presidency Chides Humanitarian Minister For Excessive Use Of Power, Ministry Placed Under Strict Monitoring". Sahara Reporters. 25 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ Ebhota-Akoma, Eseohe (23 July 2019). "What you should know about Ministerial nominee: Sadiya Umar Farouq". Daily Trust. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
^ ": How Npower,cash transfer, other programmes By Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Farouq ended in massive frauds reports". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
^ ":Ministry official narrates How Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq allegedly Embezzled money in government Agencies". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
^ ":Buhari's minister Saadiya Umar Allegedly uses public forums to campaign for Ex-chief of Air staff,Abubakar to win Bauchi Governorship election". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ ":Humanitarian Ministry denies N2-67bn school feeding fraud allegation". premiumtimes Nigeria. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

External links

[BBC-1] "Hajiya "Sadiya Umar Farouq" biography: Buhari youngest cabinet minister profile". BBC News Pidgin. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2021.

[2] "FG will address plight of poor, vulnerable Nigerians despite economic challenges – Minister". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.

[3] "Sadiya Farouq: Group lauds Buhari's appointment of Minister". Vanguard News. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

[4] "EXCLUSIVE: Presidency Chides Humanitarian Minister For Excessive Use Of Power, Ministry Placed Under Strict Monitoring". Sahara Reporters. 25 December 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

[:0-5] Ebhota-Akoma, Eseohe (23 July 2019). "What you should know about Ministerial nominee: Sadiya Umar Farouq". Daily Trust. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

[6] ": How Npower,cash transfer, other programmes By Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Farouq ended in massive frauds reports". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

[7] ":Ministry official narrates How Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq allegedly Embezzled money in government Agencies". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

[8] ":Buhari's minister Saadiya Umar Allegedly uses public forums to campaign for Ex-chief of Air staff,Abubakar to win Bauchi Governorship election". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

[9] ":Humanitarian Ministry denies N2-67bn school feeding fraud allegation". premiumtimes Nigeria. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

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+'''Sadiya Umar Farouq''' (born 5 November 1974), is a Nigerian politician and the current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and social development.<ref name=BBC>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-50003638|title=Hajiya "Sadiya Umar Farouq" biography: Buhari youngest cabinet minister profile|date=2019-10-10|work=BBC News Pidgin|access-date=2021-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-25|title=FG will address plight of poor, vulnerable Nigerians despite economic challenges – Minister|url=https://editor.guardian.ng/news/fg-will-address-plight-of-poor-vulnerable-nigerians-despite-economic-challenges-minister/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News|language=en-US}}</ref>
 Appointed by President [[Muhammadu Buhari]] in July 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-11 |title=Sadiya Farouq: Group lauds Buhari’s appointment of Minister |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/sadiya-farouq-group-lauds-buharis-appointment-of-minister/ |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=Vanguard News |language=en-US}}</ref> Farouq is by age the youngest minister in the current federal cabinet. She served as Federal Commissioner of the [[National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons|National Commission for Refugee]], Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) from October 2016 to August 2019.