BREAKING: We’ve urged President Buhari to promptly probe missing N3,836,685,213.13 of public funds in the health ministry, neuro-psychiatric hospitals, teaching hospitals, medical centres, NHIS, NAFDAC & to ensure suspected perpetrators are prosecuted and the funds are recovered.
The letter sent yesterday, read in part: "SERAP also urges you to investigate the patterns of widespread corruption in the health ministry, teaching hospitals, medical centres, and NAFDAC, and to clean up an apparently entrenched system of corruption in the health sector.
Corruption in the health sector can cause serious harm to individuals and society. These missing funds could have been used to provide access to quality healthcare for Nigerians, and meet the requirements of the National Health Act, especially at a time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ministry of health spent without approval N13,910,000.00 to organize a 2-day Training and Discussion with Chief Medical Directors and Advisory Council and the Ministry of Budget to prepare 2019 Personnel Budget. ₦4,860,000.00 was originally budgeted for the programme.
NAFDAC paid N48,885,845.00 for services not rendered and goods not supplied, and used fake and fictitious receipts for these payments. NAFDAC also paid N25,734,018.49 to companies/firms who were never awarded any contracts and never executed them.
The Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Management Board Aro-Abeokuta, Ogun State failed to account for N28,662,265.32, which was to be used to procure drugs, implants, and other inputs, as approved by the Federal Government. The Auditor-General wants the money returned to the treasury.”
These allegations are documented in Part 1 of the 2018 audited report released last week by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.
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