House Of Representatives Queries NHIS Over N152 Million Spent On Sanitisers, Face Masks, Others
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance has queried the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Mohammed Sambo, over how the scheme had been spending its resources, particularly during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
Members of the committee scrutinised the books of the NHIS at an investigative hearing on revenue generation and remittance by ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government on Monday.
The lawmakers, who expressed anger, took turns to query several items on the list of expenses provided by the scheme in its written submission to the committee, The Punch reports.
Deputy Chairman, Saidu Abdullahi, and members of the House Committee on Finance criticised the N152,487,900 said to have been spent on procurement of hand sanitisers...