Usman Yusuf, the embattled
Executive Secretary of the National health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has dragged
the scheme’s governing board to court over his suspension.
In a suit filed at the federal
high court Abuja, Yusuf asked the court to nullify his suspension and declare
that the board has no power to discipline him.
Joined as respondents in the suit
filed on Monday are Isaac Adewole, minister of health; Abubakar Malami,
minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation.
The Executive Secretary was
suspended by the NHIS governing board, over allegations of financial
infractions and abuse of office.
But he had argued that his
suspension was illegal, and that only President Muhammadu Buhari had the powers
to take such action against him.
In the suit filed on his behalf
by Uchechukwu Obi, his counsel, the Executive Secretary prayed the court to
declare that the governing board also lacked the powers to discipline him and
that they are “not empowered to get involved in the day to day administration
of the scheme”.
He also asked the court to issue
an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants or “anyone acting
on their behalf” from “disturbing, continuing to disturb, obstructing,
continuing to obstruct the plaintiff from carrying out his official duties as
the executive secretary of the scheme.”
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu
Buhari has asked Yusuf to proceed on leave as the federal government also
commenced a probe into the allegations levelled against him.
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