The executive panel set up to
investigate the crisis in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has
recommended the dismissal of Usman Yusuf, the executive execretary of the
agency.
The newspaper said the panel also
recommended the dissolution of the NHIS governing board over the crisis.
The board had suspended Yusuf for
alleged fraud, and for “rendering the scheme dysfunctional“.
But Yusuf defied the board,
insisting that it had no power to suspend him.
He also denied all he was accused
of and said he was suspended for refusing to release N975 million to the
ministry of health.
The federal government, however,
asked the NHIS ES to proceed on compulsory leave and subsequently set up the
panel to probe the matter.
The panel reportedly accused
Yusuf of breaching the public procurement act as well as the public service
rules.
It was quoted as saying the NHIS
ES had an unhealthy relationship with the staff of the agency, local union and
some other key agencies in the health sector, which it said would negatively
impact on the sector.
It said another reason Yusuf
should be dismissed is for “failing to explore internal administrative
remedies” before he sued Isaac Adewole, minister of health, and the governing
board over the crisis.
The panel’s report read: “Relieve
the executive secretary of his appointment. Justification: Inability to work in
harmony with all the relevant stakeholders in the scheme for the attainment of
the scheme’s mandate.
“Established cases of infractions
of the Public Service Rules i.e. insubordination and refusal to carry out
lawful instructions from superior authorities (governing council and the
Federal Ministry of Health) contrary to PSR Rule 030301 (0), unauthorised
public utterances contrary to Rule 030421 (id), and relevant service-wide
circulars.
“Established cases of infraction
of the following provisions of the Public Procurement Act: Sections 16(6) and
32(7).”
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