Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has ordered the arrest and prosecution of six staff of the Ministry of Health for allegedly diverting materials meant for the ministry.
This was made known in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Dr. Monday Uzor, and made available on Sunday.
Nwifuru ordered the arrest of one Ndukwe Ayansi and five others over the issue.
The statement indicated that the governor while inspecting projects sighted an articulated vehicle loading registers, books and other materials from the warehouse of the Ministry of Health.
It added: “Nwifuru stopped and made inquiries but not satisfied with answers given to him.
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“The governor probed further and discovered that patients’ data registers, cards and other documents were being moved into the vehicle.
“He also discovered that all the documents had been sold without government approval.”
The governor, according to Uzor, described the action as sabotage of the government’s efforts at repositioning the health sector.
He said: “You are selling government documents without approval on a Saturday afternoon.
“The state’s hospitals in the rural areas are in need of registers data entry forms and hospital cards.
“Unfortunately, you are selling the ones produced by the government.”
Uzor further said that the suspects had been handed over to the police while investigation continued.
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