Police officers stormed the ministry of Health building located at the Three Arm Zone, at about 1pm on Wednesday to arrest the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr. Linus Awute who is the accounting officer of the ministry and two others, over allegations of mismanagement of Ebola fund.


According to World Stage News, The other officers pencilled down for arrest were Chief Executive Officer/National Cordinator of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Prof. Abdulsalam Nasidi, Mr.John Akintunde Kehinde, Director, Emergency Health Response and one Dr. Joshua Obasanya, team leader of the Nigerian volunteers and deputy head of the ASEOWA mission Obasanya is out of the country on official assignment.


While the permanent secretary and the NCDC boss were said not to be on seat, Mr. Kehinde was however picked up from his office and brought to the third floor with the intention to pick the permanent secretary who was said not to be on seat, while Prof Nasisdi was said to be out of town


When Mr. Kehinde insisted that he was not going with the police unless they obtain permission of his permanent secretary, some workers also prevented the police from whisking him away as they followed them to the car pack and also blocked their movement.


The police team led by one Inspector Adamu from the Analytical Tracking and Interception unit under the Inspector General of Police (IGP) monitoring team had explained that they decided to come for the arrest because the officers had shun their earlier invitation to answer questions on some allegations filled against the officers by one Dr. Davidson George which bothered on fraud and mismanagement of the N1.9 billion Ebola fund.
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That virus could have wiped off thousands of nigerians but these men had the nerve to tamper with fund meant to fight it.

Its so sad and FG is not doing anything about this