by President Goodluck Jonathan for the management of Ebola, the Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, denied the money was for the management of the virus. According to Prof. Chukwu, a medical doctor, the N1.9billion approved by the president was for the federal ministry of health.
“It is not for Ebola fund. It will be used to procure more vehicles for working which have been ordered. It would be used to procure more drugs that have been ordered…and other items,” he had said.
Some of the volunteers also allege that names of some selected colleagues from amongst them are being forwarded to the federal government for further remuneration. A volunteer told PREMIUM TIMES:
“Among the volunteers, there seem to be a kind of list they carved out from the volunteers’ list. They are saying that the federal government promised to pay at the end of the exercise. They now selected their favourites and people they feel will trouble them and forwarded their names as people that will receive the money from federal and now claim that the rest of the people, that the state is settling them, whereas they have seen nothing. They made a new list and included those names. They have already taken their account numbers and processing their payment.
They said they only had some people the federal have mapped that they are going to pay, that the state has claimed that they are paying us,” the volunteer added.
But Dr. Shuaib dismissed the claims, stating that he would “walk a thousand miles” to ensure that all volunteers receive their remuneration.
“Go and find out if these claims are true, and if you want to excel in journalism, be professional. Find out the right way, not by asking people if they have been paid. “Investigate and find out that there is something that is wrong going on and then I’ll follow it up,” he added.
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