Friday, January 4, 2013

Corruption in the health sector

by Eze Eluchie


Here we go again...

Whilst no efforts whatsoever have been made by the Nigerian Federal Government to recover sums fraudulently misappropriated by former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon's Yakubu Gowon Center for National Unity and International Cooperation, moneys meant for HIV?AIDS intervention programs, inclusive of the procurement of ante-retrovirals, the Director General of the National HIV/AIDS Control agency is gleefully soliciting for more funds from the same Global Funds.(http://www.nairaland.com/700875/global-fund-may-suspend-nigeria ; http://www.greenconduct.com/news/2012/04/19/hivaids-a-rogues-gallery/ )

Not done with the harm they are inflicting to hapless Nigerians with regards to corruption surrounding Polio eradication and the Roll back Malaria programs and other public health causes supported by international donor funds, our local health authorities seem to have their sights focused again on HIV/AIDS.

Any doubt as to whether corruption is indeed a crime against humanity will surely be erased by the direct deadly consequences acts of large-scale corruption is having on the lives of millions of Nigerians.



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