The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) says it retained recovered funds from the National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) scheme for safety reasons.
The EFCC had assisted the scheme
in recovering funds from certain persons and institutions who had improper
custody of such funds.
In a statement on Saturday, Ayo
Osinlu, NHIS spokesman, said Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the EFCC, gave assurance
that the recovered funds will be released.
Magu, who hosted Mohammed Nasir
Sambo, executive secretary of NHIS, at the commission’s head office in Abuja,
said the EFCC will always support the scheme.
He said the funds were retained
in the safety of EFCC custody because the agency needed concrete assurance of
due process, transparency and accountability in the further handling of the
recovered funds.
The EFCC boss said the scheme
remains a relevant institution in the health sector of the country, adding that
needed efforts should be intensified.
In his remarks, Sambo thanked the
commission for the recoveries in the past and its remittance to the scheme.
He said the call for the release
of the funds arose from the dwindling resources of the NHIS.
Sambo said his administration
seeks to ensure “the professionalization of the operations of the organisation,
strengthening the state offices to be able to effectively manage operations at
that level since the bulk of the work is in the field space, and the firm
application of the reward and sanction mechanism to regulate conduct of all
players in the industry”.
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