The House of Representatives has threatened to issue a warrant of
arrest against Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole over his
refusal to appear before them to clear suspicions on the suspension of
the Executive Secretary of National Insurance Health Scheme (NHIS),
Usman Yusuf.
The lawmakers also said there would be no consideration of budget of the NHIS henceforth.
Chairman of the House Committee on Health Services, Chike Okafor,
disclosed this after a closed door meeting with members of the
committee.
The committee is currently investigating the issue and had demanded that the minister appeared before it.
Okafor said the minister had rather declined the call through a
letter, saying: “The House resolution was communicated to the Health
Minister and if you look through our proceedings, you will see that we
were expecting the minister to come tomorrow (today) to give us an
update on the crisis rocking the NHIS.
“But incidentally, I got a letter from him about an hour ago, saying
he will not be available to appear before this committee. He gave a
couple of reasons, which I would still relate to the committee when we
dissolve into an executive session.
“Suffice it to say that the reasons are not acceptable to me. I was
going to direct that we send a letter back to him as he claimed in his
letter that he has engagements that will take him out of Abuja or that
he is already out of Abuja.”
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