The husband and son of immediate past Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, are set to open a multi-million dollar hospital in the Gwarimpa area of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

Prototype of Iweala's multi-million dollar hospital in Abuja

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s husband, Ikemba Iweala, and their son, Uchechi Iweala, are teaming up to establish the Capital Health and Surgical Care Center in Abuja. Both men, who are medical doctors, will serve as chairman of the board and medical director respectively at the medical facility described as state of the art. 

The hospital was originally to be formally opened last June by former President Goodluck Jonathan, on the assumption that he would be reelected. Mr. Jonathan’s defeat froze the idea.

Information available on the hospital’s website, http://www.chscnigeria.com/home/page?id=Press, states that the hospital “is conceived to improvetertiary-level healthcare delivery in Nigeria and Greater West Africa by providing top-rate service of international standard.” The hospital, which has been quietly under construction and development in the last three years, is equipped with 50 beds, three operating rooms, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and CT scan.

The undisclosed financiers of the project apparently spared no expense in conceiving the project. The project’s architectural design was undertaken by Perkins + Will Global (http://perkinswill.com), a major player in the world’s architectural scene. The firm is based in Washington, DC with offices in more than 24 countries all over the world. The firm of architects has designed various multi-billion dollar projects in the US, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The hospital’s interior design was done by Perkins + Will/DAR Group.

Another US-based multinational company, General Electric, handled the hospital’s technological equipment and infrastructure. The project does not list any indigenous Nigerian company as being involved in the conception or execution of any aspect of the hospital. 

While the hospital’s website does not provide any cost estimate, two sources familiar with the project claimed that the Iweala’s hospital cost between$100 and $150 million.

An Abuja-based architect also told this reporter that the profile Perkins + Wills suggested that the hospital was pricey. “If we go by the scale of projects that Perkins + Wills gets involved in, then we can conclude that this was a major project,” the US-trained architect said.  


Screenshot of Dr. Iwealas announcing the project

The hospital’s website provides no information about the financing of the project. SaharaReporters contacted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ascertain whether the anti-corruption agency knew the financial backers of the project. “No, we are not aware,” a senior EFCC official told our correspondent. He added that the agency had no reason to investigate the source of the hospital’s funds. He added, “The only issue is that the arrowheads of the hospital are family members of the former Coordinating Minister of the Economy. But we cannot just investigate unless we receive information that public funds were somehow committed to the project.”

http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/23/former-finance-minister-okonjo-iweala%E2%80%99s-family-open-multi-million-dollar-hospital-abuja

This is good, others are moving their investments abroad and here are the Iweala's showing love for country...God will bless our hassle.


FTC I dedicate this land to all men who fear God,and honestly love their babe in truth.

Just too early now. WHAT IF IF........

hmmm.... our money.

k

That's how they(PDP)roll it. Thank God power didn't get back to them, they would have ruin this nation completely.

The project does not list any indigenous Nigerian company as being involved in the conception or execution of any aspect of the hospital.

instead of the (stolen) money should remain in Nigeria, they still give companies from overseas.

if looted money isn't on that project, make I bend

God have mercy! We must get to the root of this matter..

Cc: Oshiomole

that is good news!
I hope to be able to invest in paedatiary and maternity hispital hospitals as well.the best we have is in Lagos and it is overbooked

She and her family can actually build it. She is a two time minister of finance and have headed world bank. By the way they didn't say okonjo-iweala alone, they said 'she and her family'

Very good, part of the missing billions is being put to a good use, Fg should move in and put it back into the govt asset. We all know what the rigorous paper trail would reveal.

agarawu23:
That's how they(PDP)roll it. Thank God power didn't get back to them, they would have ruin this nation completely.
instead of the (stolen) money should remain in Nigeria, they still give companies from overseas.
if looted money isn't on that project, make I bend

So myopic!9ja needs as many international standard hospitals as it can have and hiring experienced foreign expertise to build it here shouldn't be a problem

Get your paper and pen and tell us how much her salaries were, and the percentage saved to build this after taking care of herself and family.

baralatie:
that is good news!
I hope to be able to invest in paedatiary and maternity hispital hospitals as well.the best we have is in Lagos and it is overbooked

madam is playing community shield...
she would still be colleting from the community, not giving back cos the cost of treating malaria go be like...

k

48noble:


So myopic!9ja needs as many international standard hospitals as it can have and hiring experienced foreign expertise to build it here shouldn't be a problem

its a problem bro

are you telling me we don't have professionals Here in Nigeria for the job?

at least the money should remain here instead of giving it out to foreigners.

maybe she doesn't want us to know how Much the project cost because you know say our mouth too dey leak.

the project is good oooo, but the amount involved in the construction alone is my problem

will the common man be able to afford it?

Chai!! see escape Stragey!!!
Thieves,,, It will be the most expensive hospital in Nigeria,,, multi Million $ hospital,,- Madam you need to TAPOUT

Hospital for the Maitamas by the Maitamas,

By the time Buhari is through with you that hospital will be a FEDERAL Hospital..... Amen..

Another Bull poo from APC shit... The husband is a US neurosurgeon... The minimum job you can get in the US WITHOUT BEING A GRADUATE is $9 per hr which is roughly around 900$ a month. You can get a used car in the US for 900$. ... The minimum job you can get in Nigeria AS A GRADUATE is like 40,000NAIRA, a used car here sells for like 300,000naira... Do you know how many months you will have to work to be able to get a car here? I REPEAT, THE HUSBAND IS A US NEUROSURGEON. Average salary of a US surgeon is 392, 384$ http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Neurosurgeon/Salary. . Approximately 30,000us per month. I am talking average here. So we are talking about a profession that earns roughly 6 million naira per month. Do not be deceived.


Why can't they show us the real picture instead of a PROTOTYPE

Who are the sources that confirmed the 150 milliin worth

The dau-ra dau-llard should save us all these poo and start with the probing... We are tired of terms like WILL set up a looters court, WILL do this, WILL do that... Please someone tell these people that the campaign is over.. We want to see people going to jail.... While he is at it, he should also let us know how Aisha Buhari's name got entanglde in the Haliburton bribe scam... Mouth Mastubators...



FIXED... I knew these mofos were clowns.... They keep up propagandas without going to court.

I don't personally like to criticise any media outfit but Sahara Reporters are making it so difficult for me to still maintain my sanity and stand on issues like this. I don't know if they are being financed by opposition politicians or some big boys who are in shadows and cannot be seen.

They published a report today claiming that Iweala's Family had wanted to open a multi-million dollar Hospital in Abuja but that the opening was postponed because GEJ didn't win elections but clearly, there is no such thing and the hospital in question does not exist.

Another Lie From Sahara Reporters: The Alleged “Multi-Million Dollar Okonjo-Iweala Family Hospital” Does Not Exist

NEWS RELEASE

Having failed to achieve any success after months of unsubstantiated figures and wild allegations against Dr Okonjo-Iweala, the political and corrupt vested interests who have been attacking her have now turned their evil attention on her family.

The false story, “Former Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala’s Family to open multi-million Dollar Hospital in Abuja” published by the corrupt website, Sahara Reporters is the latest chapter in the anti-Okonjo-Iweala campaign.

The story is totally baseless for a very simple reason: The alleged hospital is non-existent.

Anyone who is in doubt can go to Gwarinpa, Abuja where the hospital is allegedly located or enquire from General Electric and Perkins + Will Global, the two organisations that were mentioned as Consultants to the project in the report as to whether the hospital has been built.

The real facts are as follows:

- Dr Ikemba Iweala, the husband of Dr Okonjo-Iweala is a recently retired neuro-surgeon and emergency physician with over 40 years’ of practice in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

- Three of their four children are US trained medical doctors, including Uchechi Iweala who was mentioned in the story. Uchechi has an MD and MBA from Harvard.

- To actualize his desire to give back to the country, Dr Ikemba Iweala for the past few years has been working on establishing a hospital in the Federal Capital Territory. He has used his savings to develop the concept and design of the hospital. So far efforts to source financing for the project are ongoing.

- It is the prototype design and website of the yet to be realized project that Sahara Reporters, doing the bidding of its corrupt pay masters, seeks to turn into a multi-billion dollar evidence of corruption.

Why is Dr Okonjo-Iweala the object of this ceaseless campaign of falsehoods and distortions? The answer is simple: because she refused to steal and share and because she blocked many powerful people, some of whom are now in power, from stealing. That is why they would go to any lengths to tarnish her name.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala has a clean record of two terms in office. As we have consistently maintained, she is not afraid of a transparent investigation of her two terms in office. She supports the anti-corruption drive in Nigeria. No one who has had the privilege of serving his or her country should feel too big to be investigated. It is this very issue of fighting corruption that brought her back in the first place and she has a track record of blocking corruption. It is ironic that it is those same corrupt people who are trying to tarnish her image using corrupt media like Saharareporters.

People should recall that it was her fight against subsidy scammers that led to her mother being kidnapped in 2012 with the demand by the scammers that she should resign and leave the country.

Nigerians should prepare for more attacks because these people are desperate and drunk with power. But they will keep failing because the truth will ultimately prevail.

Incidentally, the hospital idea is still very much alive and anyone who is interested should please come forward to discuss possible investment. But there is a condition: the money must be clean. Corrupt people, especially lying governors, need not apply.

Paul C Nwabuikwu
Media Adviser to Dr Okonjo-Iweala

-: http://www.exlinklodge.com/2015/08/iwealas-family-to-open-multi-million.html#sthash.kvSCcHpQ.dpuf

Ok na! We are watching!

divinehand2003:
Just too early now. WHAT IF IF........

lol. What if what? She goes to jail?

No talk for now.... I'll wait till PWC and KPMG submit their audit report!

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is a great daughter of Igbo land....





She is building a mega hospital in Hausa land.

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Xavier9ja:
She and her family can actually build it. She is a two time minister of finance and have headed world bank. By the way they didn't say okonjo-iweala alone, they said 'she and her family'

She and her family consisting of

HUSBAND
WIFE &
SON
Multi-million $
okay,

agarawu23:
its a problem bro
are you telling me we don't have professionals Here in Nigeria for the job?
at least the money should remain here instead of giving it out to foreigners.
maybe she doesn't want us to know how Much the project cost because you know say our mouth too dey leak.

Absolute bullsh.it,when this building is raised in Nigeria,it means, sand, water,rods,some basic cement,unskilled ,semi skilled labour is 100% Nigerian,...maybe u want MCC or what ve u local contractors to build it and when something goes wrong u come to NL n start writing 20 reasons Iweala's hospital collapsed...change...is ur signature, hid to it,bro.

Don't forget is her husband and Son, not her...(2 good docs from my research can save up,and the Iweala's name is a gud trademark ask any gud economists elaborate more for u)

Good investment, wrong location.

48noble:


Absolute bullsh.it,when this building is raised in Nigeria,it means, sand, water,rods,some basic cement,unskilled ,semi skilled labour is 100% Nigerian,...maybe u want MCC or what ve u local contractors to build it and when something goes wrong u to NL n start writing 20 reasons Iweala's hospital collapsed...

what's this one saying ?

so you mean all our contractors are quacks?

if you read the main story well, my quote wasn't on the contractors.

so use your glasses and re-read the story

shizzy7:
Chai!! see escape Stragey!!!
Thieves,,, It will be the most expensive hospital in Nigeria,,, multi Million $ hospital,,- Madam you need to TAPOUT

Hospital for the Maitamas by the Maitamas,

By the time Buhari is through with you that hospital will be a FEDERAL Hospital..... Amen..

"Federal" hospital, with US & Harvard signature on it?
You lots overhype your country, I think.

Nonsense!!! Igbos never cease to amaze me, how many of these world class projects are find in their region that they are building it in other man's land..what happened to her state delta or anambra her husband's state.. Igbos!!! Is time we start thinking of home first, bring your your investments home cause nig is good that has an expiring date

baralatie:

ahh! let's go
1.she works in the world bank with two doctoral degrees.so let us calculate her start up salary first.
2.she rose up to be a director in world bank.hence facilities like benefits add to her salary.(she no go pay house rent)
3.as at the time she was imported to Nigeria.She was paid $400000 per month.(see money)
4.now her loving husband is a medical doctor.
GUESS THE HOSPITAL HE IS WORKING AND THE PAY PACKAGE THEY ENJOY( between $1-2.5m per year)
makes you see the reasons why NIGERIAN DOCTORS WILL KILL TO ENTER A GET A US FED. HOSPITAL JOB WITH TIME ON THEIR HANDS
5.and guess again her baby boy is Also a WORKING DOCTOR ABROAD A WEKL PAYING CLINIC(DAMN).
WAIT FOR IT
NOW IMAGINE WHAT A WOMAN LIKE NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA WORLD REKNOWN ECONOMIST WILL DO WITH $1m in investment market.
what do you think is the turnover of that money after 10 years.
Guy! if you ever meet an ngozi okonji iweala as a girlfriend in this Nigeria
Don't think!
Just marry her fast because
She is your retirement plan$

agarawu23:
what's this one saying ?
so you mean all our contractors are quacks?
if you read the main story well, my quote wasn't on the contractors.
so use your glasses and re-read the story

Will you agarawu23 hire local contractors to furnish your house,even make your bed being as rich as them? We are getting tired of lies and don't have time for it anymore, if u know ursef.

agarawu23:
That's how they(PDP)roll it. Thank God power didn't get back to them, they would have ruin this nation completely.




instead of the (stolen) money should remain in Nigeria, they still give companies from overseas.

if looted money isn't on that project, make I bend

_u wan bend pass as u dey so?
abeg wetin buhari use him share of 2.8billion dollars do for naija?