Peoples Democratic Party has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of turning “the National Health Insurance Scheme into their Automated Teller Machine.” The party was reacting to reports that N10bn was stolen from the agency’s savings. The PDP in a statement alleged that the APC and the Presidency had been stealing from the nation’s treasury.
“Our nation is now faced with daily pillaging of our national patrimony by the APC interests and a notorious cabal, who operating under the cover and protection of the Buhari Presidency, have turned our revenue agencies, particularly the NHIS into cash cows to painfully milk funds for the APC’s ill-fated 2019 re-election bid,” it alleged.
“When we say that this Buhari administration is debauched, many do not realise to what extent. This administration is so brazen in stealing in the NHIS that the Presidency has to recall and reinstate the indicted Executive Secretary of the Scheme, Prof. Usman Yakubu, while he was still being quizzed by the EFCC for alleged corruption.
“Betraying its complicity in the NHIS racket, the Presidency has refused to speak out on allegations that it reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary to conceal the earlier looting and protect members of the cabal and has also refused to order any form of investigation into the exposed frauds.
Meanwhile a member of the governing council of NHIS Senator Bassey Otu on Thursday said it had carried out forensic audit of the agency’s accounts.
He said, “Forensic audit has been done and we have looked at all the issues. Definitely people will be called to answer questions, those that have to face some more uniformed people will have to do it and those who have to explain to Nigerians why things went that way will also have to do it.”
