Nigeria: Health Ministry Mismanaged Over N559m Generated From Yellow Cards - Senate allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Views: Visits 43
The upper chamber of the National Assembly has lamented as nine exotic vehicles belonging to the Ministry of Health were taken away by some former officials of as they were retiring from service with the ministry.
The lawmakers also found out that officials of the Ministry mismanaged N559 million generated from sales of 681,487 units of International Certificate of vaccination (Yellow Card) to the public.
This alarm was raised by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts led by Senator Matthew Urhoghide.
The allegations levelled on the ex-civil servants, referenced a query that was sent before the House by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation in a 2015 report.
Health Ministry mismanaged over N559m generated from Yellow Cards ― Senate
On
By Henry Umoru – Abuja
The Senate has uncovered how the officials of Ministry of Health mismanaged N559 million generated from sales of 681,487 units of International Certificate of vaccination (Yellow Card) to the public
The Senate has also discovered that nine assorted vehicles belonging to the Ministry were taken away by some former officials of ministry as they were leaving the service of the Ministry.
The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee on Public Accounts is raising the alarm of how the Ministry spent such amount of money
Senate panel accuses Health Ministry of mismanaging N559m Yellow Card fees thenationonlineng.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenationonlineng.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Share
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has resolved to uphold the report of the Auditor General of the Federation which queried the alleged misappropriation of the sum of N559million by officials of the Ministry of Health.
According to the 2015 Auditor-General’s report, the sum was earned from the sales of units of International Certificate of vaccination (Yellow Card) to the public.
The report submitted to the Chairman Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Mathew Urhoghide revealed that the Ministry failed to remit the statutory 25 per cent of the amount totalling N139,768,750.00.
The report reads in part: “It was observed from the data gathered from the State Centres of the Port Health Services Unit of the Ministry that a total sum of N559 million was generated from the sales of 681,427 units of International Certificate of Vaccination (Yellow Cards) to the public between August 2013 and March 2015.