This development was disclosed by the Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, on Wednesday in Abuja.
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The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, joined the staff at the clinic to commemorate the Day, and was among the first to have hearing assessment and check-up.
Gambari said this on Monday at the ground breaking ceremony of the facility at the State House precincts, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that already the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs had visited the site during its oversight function to know the level of utilisation of budgetary allocation to State House.
Speaking at the commissioning of State House Clinic Special Care Centre (COVID-19 Isolation Centre), Mustapha said the Buhari Administration was using the challenges posed by the pandemic as an opportunity to change Nigeria’s health infrastructure.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-governmental Affairs, Sen. Danjuma La’ah, made the call when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend the 2021 budget.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator Danjuma La’ah, gave the admonition when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend his 2021 budget estimates
The allegation gained public prominence when Hajia Aisha Buhari, the First Lady and wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, demanded the probe of the allocation to the medical centre at a public function
Buhari called for a probe of the budget utilisation at the clinic
Reacting to a recent media report on the state of the Medical Centre, the Permanent Secretary said the management will among other things seek the commercialisation of the Centre to boost its revenue and augment the appropriation it receives from the government in the quest for better qualitative service