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  • Osinbajo to inaugurate Lagos MSME clinic

    Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will on Tuesday inaugurate the Lagos edition of the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic.

    Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye, the state Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement signed by Babasola Ogunmosunle, Public Relations Manager in the ministry.

    Oladunjoye said that the two-day MSME Clinic would hold on Aug. 6 and Aug.7 at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the MSME Clinic is an initiative of the Office of the Vice President in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, as well as 11 other federal agencies.

    Oladunjoye said that the event would further complement the state’s efforts at developing MSMEs in the state.

    She gave an assurance the state that government would continue to implement policies that would boost growth of the sector.

    “As it is evident to all, the present administration in Lagos State is leaving no stone unturned to ensure even development of all sectors, and the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Clinic will never be an exemption.’’

    The commissioner expressed confidence that the programme would raise a new set of entrepreneurs while the existing ones would be guided on the best steps to take to add value to their efforts.

    According to her, the state will enhance the capacity of MSME operators with relevant skills that will position them to explore opportunities and access appropriate financial facility.

    She said that the administration of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode established the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) with a seed capital of N25 billion.

    The fund was earmarked for disbursement within four years to empower business owners with capital to revive moribund ventures, boost trade and start new ventures.

    Oladunjoye recalled that Osinbajo had lauded the state government for the LSETF initiative, and for creating over 12,500 new jobs within the first six months of the scheme.

    The commissioner expressed delight that the MSME Clinic was coming at a period when the state was creating conducive environment for small scale businesses to thrive.

  • NASS Clinic

    • A shameful picture of dysfunction

    In October, the First Lady chastised the management of Aso Rock Clinic for not having syringes and other basic medical equipment and medications for even emergency treatment at the clinic.  In response, the House of Representatives quickly resolved to investigate the “deplorable condition” of the clinic and its failure to deliver services for which it was being funded.

    But the National Assembly (NASS) turns out to have been worrying about the mote in the eye of others while ignoring the beam in its own eye: gross lack of basic medical supplies at the NASS Clinic that even induces rationing of medical treatment.

    A clinic that is to provide health care for over 500 lawmakers and many more legislative aides and workers is depicted by insiders as not having enough doctors, basic equipment, and basic medications, apart from paracetamol. The situation is bad enough that medical supplies are rationed and staffers needing treatment are turned back, unless they are known to have irresistible men and women of power behind them. Even those who get treated are directed to buy their medications outside the clinic.

    The light-mindedness towards efficient health care in NASS Clinic seems to reflect similar attitudes of leaders to health care in general: Aso Rock Clinic runs largely on paracetamol; the National Assembly clinic is worse; most government hospitals in the country lack the equipment and supplies needed to treat patients; and primary health centres hardly function in most of the country’s 774 local governments.

    It is ironical that the National Assembly, already famous or notorious for being the most highly remunerated in the world, is nonchalant about the health of lawmakers and their staff. But the speed with which lawmakers and even members of the executive resort to medical tourism suggests rising institutional cynicism about the local health industry. There is no other way to explain why lawmakers who do so much to protect outlandish benefits for themselves would readily lose interest in maintaining the clinic that protects their health.

    We consider the situation of the NASS Clinic, like that of Aso Rock about which the First Lady raised the alarm barely three months ago, an evidence of sheer irresponsibility and a flagrant waste of the nation’s resources poured into providing such important public service. It is shameful that the two special clinics created to manage the health of government leaders are unable to provide the service for which they have been created.

    Similar clinics are available in other countries to take care of the health needs of government leaders and as a service strategic to national security. For example, the Office of the Attending Physician, United States’ counterpart of NASS Clinic, has a full complement of staff and adequate facilities to attend to staff of the Congress and the judiciary, as well as to visitors and tourists to Congress in case of emergency.

    If the government is not capable of running one special clinic properly, why should it have two separate clinics in the same vicinity? The principle of separation of powers does not require that the executive, legislature, and the judiciary in the same city run separate clinics. Having one well-staffed and equipped clinic to serve staff of the three branches of government in Abuja is more cost-effective than unnecessary duplication that produces nothing but inefficiency and inertia.

    Believing that the combined staff of the presidency, legislature, and the judiciary cannot be more than the population of an average local government, we call for proper rationalising or streamlining of health care for the presidency, legislature, and the judiciary. There seems to be no better time to do this than now when the economy is under severe stress.

  • Osinbajo to inaugurate MSME clinic, GEEP in Osun today

    Osinbajo to inaugurate MSME clinic, GEEP in Osun today

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will today launch the Nationwide Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Clinic and the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP) in Osun State.

    The MSME Clinic, a scheme under the Office of the Vice President, is targeted at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to play critical roles in re-energising the economy.

    A statement by the spokesman of the state Ministry of Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, Ismail Adekunle Jayeoba-Alagbada, said the Vice President will lead the Federal Government delegation to Osun State to officially unveil the MSME Clinic and the GEEP.

    The statement said the GEEP, also called MarketMoni, is an enterprise intervention programme of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to provide soft loans for small businesses at no interest to farmers, artisans and petty traders.

    GEEP provides soft loans between N25,000 to N250,000 to beneficiaries to catalyse their businesses and provide positive engagements for many Nigerians who hitherto had faced problems of unemployment.

    The MSME had earlier been set up in Aba, Ilorin, Sokoto, Jos, Katsina, Calabar, Abeokuta, Abuja and Uyo.

  • 2018 budget: Govt votes N1b for State House Clinic

    2018 budget: Govt votes N1b for State House Clinic

    •No details of National Assembly’s N125b

    The Executive has proposed to spend N1,030,458,453 on the State House Clinic under the Presidency’s total estimate of N51,445,678,808 in the 2018 Budget proposal.

    The clinic came under focus recently when the President’s wife, Hajia Aisha Buhari, criticised it for being without “ordinary syringe” and unable to treat anyone.

    The breakdown of the State House Medical Centre’s expenditure includes the proposed allocation of N408 million for medical equipment, N146 million for the completion of the dental wing’s extension and N120 million for construction of two blocks of 24 units three bedroom flats.

    The National Assembly is expected to begin the screening of the budget next week. Approval is likely to be end of the year so as to return the country to the January-December budget cycle.

    The details of the National Assembly’s N125 billion estimate remain undisclosed. That has been the case since 1999 in spite of the leadership’s transparency promise.

    Some expenditure to be undertaken at the Presidency include N145 million for food stuff / catering materials supplies, N165 million for maintenance of motor vehicle / transport equipment, N132 million on fuel & lubricants, N67 million for vehicles’ fuel, N45 million for generator fuel, N18 million on gas, N135,668,651 on refreshment & meals while honorarium & sitting allowance is to take N478,313,996.

    Also, ongoing rehabilitation work on the Presidency’s animal enclosure and procurement of its veterinary  lab equipment is to cost N12,489,655, upgrade of the presidential villa ranch and construction of wildlife mini-zoo is proposed at a cost of N28,908,625 while N24 million is for local flowers’ nursery, irrigation and upgrade of a helipad grass field.

    Also, annual routine maintenance of mechanical/electrical installations at the Presidential villa is proposed for N4,860,392,146, outstanding liabilities on routine maintenance and other services for 2016 is allocated N565. 6 million while N83. 7 million is allocated for the purchase of tyres for bullet proof vehicles, trucks, jeeps, ambulance and other utility vehicles.

    The routine maintenance of State House Lagos facilities (Dodan Barracks, VP Residence/Guest Houses at Ikoyi) is to be undertaken at a cost of N145,869,150 under the 2018 national budget.

    Also proposed is over N25.5 billion to be spent on surveillance activities across the country.

    Nigeria will be strengthening its security architecture with some high tech surveillance infrastructure in 2018.

    In the vanguard of this intense surveillance operation is the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) that plans to purchase a social media minning suite for N2,213,456,360.

    Also in 2018, the DSS has proposed to spend N 1,006,200,000 on surveillance drones with precision camera and IMSI payload capabilities.

  • Aso Villa clinic as metaphor

    It was Zahra Buhari who back in September first wondered why despite the N3 billion budgeted for the State House Clinic, workers not only “don’t have the equipment to work with, patients/staff have to buy what they need such as ‘simple paracetamol, gloves and syringe”.

    Aisha Buhari, the president wife will later seize the occasion of the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, New-born Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa to take the fight directly to Dr.  Munir, the Chief Medical Director of the State House Clinic. She wanted to know the rationale for “building new structures when there are no equipment and  consumables in the health facility established to take care of the President, Vice-President, their families as well as members of staff of the Presidential Villa”.

    Aisha and her daughter undoubtedly meant well for the country. If those who could look at the Leviathan, President Buhari, on the face and remind him of his contract with the people have been shut out by short-sighted northern irredentists, the president’s immediate family can at least remind that him the buck stops at his table. If there is no syringe or cotton wool in medical centre located under the nose of the chief priest of change, and which had for 15 years attracted humongous budgetary allocations before the 2016/17 N3.87b, an amount which is N787m more than all the total allocations to all the 16 federal Teaching Hospitals spread around the country, it is obvious it will be business as usual in all those far-fetched areas. And if the problem is corruption as being insinuated by the president’s family members, that will give us an insight as to why there is total decay in all the nations federal health institutions including the University College Hospital, Ibadan, once regarded as one of the best three teaching hospitals in Commonwealth nations, and the 16 other glorified teaching hospitals set up without any abiding philosophy beyond sharing free oil revenue.

    But there is a heuristic value in the current intervention of the president’s immediate family. The waste associated with the state house medical centre is a metaphor for all that is wrong with President Buhari’s administration—nepotism, corruption, lethargy and betrayal of expectation of many Nigerians.

    This column had argued President Buhari was free to select those he could trust to deliver on his contract with Nigerians even if they all came from his Daura village. Unfortunately, those the president trusted as Pa Bisi Akande pointed out at the early stage, did not share his pan- Nigeria vision beyond shutting out those who carried him on their back across the country during the electioneering period and others who publicly dared Nigerians to stone them if Buhari failed to implement the APC agenda to the letter. More tragic for our nation, a section of the Nigeria press,  committed to no higher values beyond what goes into their pocket for merely mirroring society at its basest, provided the intellectual support for this anti-Nigeria group. It took the intervention by the president’s wife to confirm Pa Akande’s fears when several months later, she accused those she claimed hijacked her husband’s government of knowing nothing about APC agenda.

    We now know that those Buhari put in place of trust did not share his pan-Nigeria vision and passion. Babachir Lawal, who knew Buhari expects Caesar’s wife to be above board, had no excuse in his capacity as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, getting involved in contract awards to a company in which he allegedly had an interest. The lopsided appointments into various positions including the recent appointment into the Board of NNPC were carried out by those President Buhari placed in positions of authority. Maikanti Baru of NNPC arrogantly justified his action by claiming he reports to the minister and not the minister of state. He did not tell Nigerian who chairs the Board of NNPC in the absence of President Buhari who also doubles as the minister for petroleum. We all know President Buhari turned back those who carried official files to him in London.

    Other President Buhari’s confidants that have betrayed the president’s confidence include the Attorney General who not too long ago, attempted to hide behind an ad-hoc committee the president set up to reposition the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit and restore its membership of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Unit, to undermine the office of EFCC acting chairman. We can also recall how two different reports emanating from the office the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DG-DSS), Lawal Daura was all the self-serving Senate needed to justify non-confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC chairman. And finally, if the president has any doubt about the warnings of Pa Akande and his wife as to the loyalty of some of his confidants, the scandalous reabsorption of Abdulrahseed Maina in spite of the 14 EFCC charges on his neck with the help of the offices of Attorney General and Minster of Justice is sufficient evidence to show they do not identify with the president’s anti -corruption crusade.

    The president has made some giant strides despite effect of naira devaluation foisted on him by the World Bank and their Nigerian fronts that dismissed his argument against devaluation in an import-dependent economy. The government, as the minister of information has said, has also continued to provide regular supply of fuel to Nigerians without having to pay some parasites N1.6trillion as fuel subsidy. We have paid counterpart funding for the modernization of some of our railway projects.  But these are no substitutes for good governance which manifests through fairness, justice, and creation of an enabling environment to make the governed believe they have the protection of their government as they pursue their daily chores.

    From the crisis of nepotism, corruption, legitimacy and identity, the fallout of attempts by President Buhari’s confidants to undermine his pan Nigerian vision, let us now return to the billion-gulping State House Clinic. Do we really need a State House Clinic whose combined N3.1billion budgetary allocation in 2016 and 2017 is higher than the combined allocation to all the tertiary healthcare centres in the country?

    The answer is no. Elsewhere in the world, state houses have only clinics that take care of emergencies while head of governments and civil servants like those they are elected to serve depend on public hospitals for their health challenges. While leaders of government in those advanced economies fly commercial airlines and use public transport, our president controls a fleet of aircraft while the leadership of the legislature control fleet of cars at taxpayers’ expense.

    The decision by our political leaders to create special privileges in the guise of perks of office is a misreading of the policy thrust of our colonial masters who did so to meet the needs of civil servants who were birds of passage as they were posted around the Commonwealth nations.

  • Aso (graft) Clinic

    For some unfathomable reason, the Aso Rock Clinic saga would only elicit morbid emotions in Hardball. He was therefore minded to title this piece, The Aso Morbid Clinic but for the obvious contentious connotation it might trigger. But morbidity is the name of the game where cold undertakers are at work. And no other appellation best suits the perpetrators of this heist than pallbearers and morbid anatomists.

    Let us go to the point lest one asphyxiates on his emotions. Is there any Nigerian who has never heard that delectable voice of the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari crying in the desert of Aso Rock, Presidential Villa? Well, in her latest wailing(?) last week, she told Nigerians how she was recently ill and asked to visit the State House Medical Centre (Aso Rock Clinic) and she was advised to go abroad instead.

    Hear her: “I called Aso Rock Clinic to find out if they have an X-Ray machine they said it’s not working.

    “In the end I had to go to a hospital owned and operated by foreigners 100 per cent.

    “There is budget for the hospital and you go there now you will see a number of constructions going on but they don’t have a single syringe there. What is the purpose of the buildings if there is no equipment there to work with?”

    A few days earlier her daughter had also publicly lashed at the management of the clinic, particularly the Permanent Secretary, Jalil Arabi for his inability to provide nary paracetamol in the facility despite a budget of N3 billion.

    It is true and must be stated that there is always a gap between budget figures and actual disbursal, but nobody has denied, and indeed, would dare say that funding was the reason why modest clinical services cannot be maintained in a health facility servicing the number one office in the land.

    Again, though Nigerians are howling and even members of the National Assembly are screaming, what manner of budgeting allows funds to be allocated blindly year-on-year with no question as to how it is disbursed?

    Question again, which budgeting system votes more funds to one clinic than 16 federal teaching hospitals put together?

    Even more question: this utter madness has gone on year-on-year for the past three years at least with none raising eye eyebrow until these two women spoke up. This suggests that there are no checks, no reviews and no audit in the system.

    Yet this administration is fighting graft while graft apparently lives in Villa… right there under the president’s nose. This is indeed a mortifying experience to dwell upon and it is liable to damage both body and soul.

  • First lifestyles clinic opens in Lagos

    Glover Medical’s LifeStyle Clinic, described as Nigeria’s first lifestyle’ clinic, has opened on Victoria Island, Lagos.

    Its Chairman, Chief Anil Glover, said the facility was the brainchild of his wife, Arvinder, and himself. He said they were touched by Glover’s father-inlaw’s death, which was caused by diabetes. His parents also urged him to build a clinic that would cater to lifestyles diseases.

    Glover said the clinic, which is in partnership with Artemis Hospitals, a global brand, took nine months to build and it is to deliver quality services. ‘’We’ll deal with clinical care and management of lifestyle diseases. We have a dream to be first choice for Nigerians and others,’’he said, announcing that he would offer free services to indigent old ones or those whose children live abroad.

    Indian Second Secretary/Head of Chancery, Subbu Ramesh, who represented the High Commissioner,  congratulated the Glovers on the inauguration of their clinic. ‘’We are proud that an Indian is making its presence here,’’ he said, adding that the clinic would not only provide medicare, but aid technology transfer and skills acquisition.

    Rotary International 9110 District Governor, Dr Wale Ogunbadejo, said it was good that the Glovers went into that area, noting that poor lifestyles were the main cause of some deadly ailments.

    Lanre Adedoyin, a medical doctor, who represented Ogunbadejo,  said Rotary emphaises quality health, which is why the organisation made it one of its six focal areas.

    Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Director-General, Alhaji Muda Yusuf, urged the government to give incentives to investors in the healthcare sector. He said since the government could not provide adequate health care alone, there was the need to encourage individuals going into the area through tax cuts, adding that its officials should not be seen to be harassing clinics and hospitals owners for multiple tax collection.

    Artemis Hospitals, India, Managing Director Dr Anil Khetrapal, a Brigadier-General, said the company’s deal with Glover Medical Life Style Clinic would strengthen medicare provision in the country, affirming that many Nigerians would benefit from it.

    Head of Endocrinology Department, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Prof Olufemi Fasanmade, who spoke on Emerging trends in lifestyle diseases, warned against poor lifestyles to avoid diseases associated with them.

    He listed obesity, hypertension, peptic ulcer and anxiety as the consequences of bad lifestyles, such as excessive drinking, smoking, consumption of excessive sugar,and salt, stress at work and sedentary. He said while the diseases are expensive to manage, they are cheaper to prevent. ‘Go for regular checkups, exercises and you will live longer,’’ he added

  • #clinic checkup: Hospital Update 2 

    • Continued from last week

    You come to the hospital sick and you are sick and tired of the hassles you are subjected to 

    You had better not be if you can’t afford to pay the exorbitant fees in private hospital or the kind of treatment you require are only available in teaching hospitals where you will still be referred to when the private ones can’t handle your case.

    Get used to whatever hassles you have to go through, including being asked to stand up from where you are sitting for other patients, for whatever reason.

    If you arrive the hospital at 7am and are still not sure when you will see the doctor at 9.38am, learn to be a patient patient!

    Patients waiting to see consultants since 6.30am.Consultantsattending meeting as at 9.58am. Please wait consultants will see you soon

    Divine healing is your best bet when you have to wait forever to see a doctor on your clinic day.

    Nurse: The doctor will soon see you, just make yourself comfortable.

    Patient: I came for treatment, not comfort.

    When you are not the president, you have to learn to wait for hours to see your doctor in Nigeria, not in London.

    God heals, doctors care. If only they can care enough 

    Thank God for doctors who care as much as they should, even if they have to tolerate some the patients. A sick man or woman deserves as much care as he or she can get, not lack of enough attention from doctors who are absent minded or prefer to fiddle with their gadgets and claim to be listening to patients.

    Gastro, neuro keep the medical terms to yourself; what we want is consultation, treatment.

    You need to be sure which clinic you are supposed to attend to get the right treatment. But who do you blame when patients for two departments sit together amidst confusion of which doctor is available and which one is not?

    After getting confused about the whole arrangement, being asked questions like, are you for Gastro or Neuro?can get on your nerve.

    “I don’t know which is which,” an angry patient replies. “I just need to see the doctor please.”

    Kudos to doctors and other health workers who have to make do with limited facilities and crowd of patients.

    If only doctors and other hospital staff have enough facilities to work with, but that is obviously not the case. First, there is not enough staff to attend to the crowd of patients, then the facilities are overstretched.

    Who is to blame? Definitely not the doctors and other staff all the time. Many of them are miracle workers, given the condition under which they work.

    God help you when you have to see a doctor who obviously needs treatment for stress.

    Despite all they know about being healthy, doctors are still human beings like every other person. Apart from the hectic schedule they have to cope with, they have personal issues that make some of them look stressed up and sometimes not in a good state of mind to attend to a patient who needs all the attention he or she can get from a doctor.

    Stress or no stress, the doctor is still supposed to be in charge and recommend what you should do about your health. Don’t worry about him or her, just pray that his diagnosis is not stress- induced.

    Hurray, finally you get to see the doctor after three hours, but he can’t attend to you as he should. No past case file …#cliniccheckup

  • UCH gets infusion clinic

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has established a clinic where multi-vitamins and minerals will be used to boost health of patients with terminal and chronic diseases.

    The Chief Medical Director, Prof. Temitope  Alonge, said UCH “will run the clinic in partnership with ActivLife Infusion Clinic, UK”.

    He said the clinic would primarily use vitamins and mineral infusions on patients whose body immune systems had collapsed or were weak.

    According to him, patients suffering from terminal illnesses, such as cancer, stroke and geriatric ailments, will benefit most.

    “The clinic will be run by a Nutrition Support Team made up of a doctor and two nurses trained in nutrition medicine and a laboratory has been created for micro-nutrients supply generally,” he said.

    The Chief Executive Officer of ActivLife Infusion Clinic in Nigeria, Mrs Bunmi Talabi-Adeyemi, a certified Tropical Nurse, said the clinic would spread activities of the company to the Southwest.

  • Abandoned SURE-P clinic

    Abandoned SURE-P clinic

    •A wrong way to improve mother/child health 

    For over two years, a multi-million naira fully-equipped healthcare facility built with SURE-P funds is lying fallow on the outskirts of Abuja. The hospital, equipped with baby cribs, beddings, operating table, scale, wheel chairs, office furniture, stretcher, syringes, gloves, maternity equipment, drugs, 10 KVA generating set, standard borehole, accommodation for staff, etc. is now covered by dust in sleepy TuganNasara town, just three kilometres outside Abuja.

    In its current state, the primary health facility in TuganNasara represents an unpardonable undoing of SURE-P’s noble objectives that motivated construction of the clinic: “to increase use of maternal and child health services by the country’s rural populations through innovative demand and supply side interventions along the continuum of care.” Ironically, the health centre was completed 18 months before the government of Goodluck Jonathan and remains closed 18 months into the government of Muhammadu Buhari.

    This anomaly is too obvious for citizens to miss the lack of genuine concern for the immediate community of TuganNasara in the Federal Capital Territory, and for those in more rural communities across the country. Undoubtedly, citizens in communities far from the capital are bound to worry about their own fate if a community so close to Abuja can suffer so much neglect at a time that the government can hardly afford any wastage. The implications of such neglect are too serious to be dismissed as an oversight.

    One implication of the abandonment of a completed primary health centre is the deprivation of TuganNasara mothers and their children of direly needed  healthcare, an implication well captured by some of the residents of the community housing an abandoned near state-of-the-art clinic: “We have children dying here frequently from preventable diseases but cannot access quality medical care even though we have a fully equipped clinic in our midst, it is very sad …That is the most unserious and unpatriotic thing to do against your citizens, some countries will jump in celebration to achieve this level of development but here, it is all about the money getting into the hands of some people and that’s all that matters.”

    The neglect is more flagrant in a context in a country that is still rated low in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, one in which one in every 10 children dies before his/her ffth birthday and one in 20 women still dies at childbirth. There is no better way to demonstrate the insensitivity of policymakers and implementers than the walking away of the Federal Government from a well-equipped health facility designed to reduce the social burden of the most vulnerable segment of the population.

    This newspaper seizes the unfortunate situation created for residents of TuganNasara to remind the government of the imperative of proper coordination of policymaking and implementation. SURE-P, the mother of the TuganNasara health facility, popped up overnight without proper preparation for policy coordination in 2012 after reduction of fuel subsidy charges. Examples of failure to meet targets abound in other aspects of the programme: poverty alleviation, transportation, and infrastructure. Now that we have a Federal Government that has embarked on formal social security assistance to the vulnerable segment of the society, there should be no reason to allow the tradition of disconnect between policymakers in political parties and policy implementers in the civil service to spawn the egregious blunder of abandoning direly needed facilities made possible by taxpayers.

    The short-term solution to this absurd situation is for the government to open immediately for service the TuganNasara health facility and others like it across the nation. And the long-term solution is for the Buhari government to steer its government’s institutional reform in a way that will make wasting of taxpayers’ money a thing of the past.