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INCOMPETENCE!!! Federal Government Wrongly Paid Millions Of Naira To 588 Doctors – Ngige Reveals
The Nigerian authorities has vowed to get better tens of millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 medical docs.
Labour Minister, Chris Ngige spoke in a chat with State Home reporters in Abuja on Sunday.
Ngige stated the affected docs wrongly benefitted from the Medical Residency Coaching Fund meant for a specific class of docs.
Their names had been uncovered after a scrutiny of the 8,000 names submitted by Chief Medical Administrators of federal establishments.
He stated about 2,000 names ought to have been omitted as a result of they don’t have Postgraduate Reference Numbers of Nationwide Postgraduate Medical School and (or) that of the West African Postgraduate Medical School.
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The minister, nevertheless, disclosed {that a} substantial quantity of the cash had been refunded by a number of the well being personnel.
Ngige stated results of the primary spherical of scrutinization will probably be in comparison with the lists the Submit-Graduate Medical School and the Chief Medical Administrators offered.
He assured that when the authenticity of names submitted are verified, the Accountant-Basic pays the beneficiaries.
“We’re doing that verification as a result of we are not looking for what occurred final time in 2020 to reoccur”,
The minister added.
