The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into alleged misappropriation of Global Fund’s grant of $1,349,087 between July and December 2013 by the workers of the Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics (DPRS).
This is even as the lawmakers berated the management of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for allowing drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS to expire in their stores before beneficiaries could access them.
Consequently, the House Standing Committee on HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control has begun investigation into the application of grants from Global Fund by NACA since 2010.
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On the issue of the expired drugs, the committee opined that allowing $5m worth of drugs, which the agency’s Director-General (DG), Prof John Idoko, put at $2.5m to expire meant that it is either NACA is being managed by uncommitted workers or the agency lacks capable manpower. The decision of the Hon Emmanuel Ombugadu-led committee followed an interactive session between the committee and NACA over the alleged misappropriation of Global Fund’s grant to the tune of $1,349,087 between July 2012 and December 2013 by DPRS personnel. DPRS is one of the three major recipients of the grant through NACA.
The committee was petitioned by a civil society organisation called ‘Say No Campaign’ that the Office of the Inspector-General of Police has investigated officials of DPRS for misappropriating $1,349,087 between July 2012 and December 2013.
The CSO urged the committee to investigate the matter and prosecute those found culpable.
Staff of DPRS, as contained in the petition committed the fraud through various means including; misrepresenting or inflating the amount paid for hotel venue for meeting facilities and rooms; and inflating and or falsifying receipts related to daily subsistence allowance entitlements, transportation expenses to and from the venue, fuel and stationery.
By: Bode Gbadebo
Leadership News
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