President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the removal of Chief Executives of five major parastatals in the nation's health sector.

According to the statement Ihekweazu is the Managing Partner of EpiAfric, a public health consultancy firm that focuses on Africa, while Aliyu is a Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Salako is the Provost of the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan; Ezemolue is a Professor of Paediatrics and Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA; while Yusuf is a Professor of Paediatrics at St. Jude Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, US. No reason was given for their removal in the statement issued by the Director of Press and Public Relations in Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Bolaji Adebiyi.

Sources said it may be connected to allegation by foreign donor agencies that funds were being diverted, particularly in the Federal Ministry of Health.

The Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole said affected agency heads had not been sacked but "Replaced." "They have not been sacked, they have been replaced. So, you can quote me that government has decided to replace them, but they have not been sacked. They are five of them," he said.

I am sure that the President must have taken many things into consideration before approving the new changes.

" The Health Ministry and some of its agencies and departments have been accused by GAVI of diverting fun