Buhari sends NHIS boss on leave, orders probe
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday suspended the embattled Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf and ordered that he proceeds on administrative leave immediately.
This, the president said, was to create room for an unfettered investigation of the allegations against the NHIS helmsman.
Consequently, he approved the establishment of an independent fact-finding panel to investigate the alleged infractions by Yusuf, who had been under investigation over allegations of fraud.
He was among others accused of perpetrating fraud to the tune of N919 million and was suspended by the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole in July last year.
However, he was reinstated by President Buhari in February 2018, but was again suspended by the governing council of the NHIS on October 19.
A statement by the Director, Permanent Services in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun A. Adekunle, said the Federal Government has found it necessary to restate that the objective of establishing agencies was to deliver better and faster services to Nigerians.
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