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Alex Ekwueme: FG Lied, We Are Bearing Cost Of Treatment - Family [VANGUARD NEWS] by Nobody: 12:14pm On Nov 13, 2017 |
…Airlifted for medical treatment abroad
…Entitlements not paid since 2015
By Emeka Mamah
ENUGU—AILING Second Republic Vice
President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme was
yesterday flown abroad for continued
medical treatment but the Federal
Government will not bear the cost of the
treatment. Sources told Vanguard that
this was because the Federal Government
has reneged on its promise to bear the full
cost of treatment and transportation of
the elder statesman to a hospital in
London, and referred the issue to the
Anambra State government where
Ekwueme hails from.
According to the sources, the Chief of Staff
to President Muhammadu Buhari, who
released an Air Ambulance to take
Ekwueme to London, informed the
Ekwueme family that was the extent the
government could go.
Former Vice President Alex Ekwueme
It was learned that Ekwueme’s younger
brother and surgeon, Professor
Obumneme Ekwueme, who would have
travelled with his brother to London as
head of his medical team was dropped
from the Air Ambulance because he had
problems with foreign exchange that
would take care of other exigencies that
would arise such as feeding,
accommodation, drugs and laboratory
tests among others.
Obumneme would now depart for
London today, November 13, to join his
brother and ensure adequate treatment
for him.
The family source wondered why the
Federal Government would promise to
treat Ekwueme as a former vice president
and later renege on such promise.
“We are not surprised about the
development because Ekwueme has not
been receiving his entitlements from this
administration. The Federal Government
was not pressurised to make the promise.
It did so on its own volition.
“ It is not as if our family could not have
treated him in the best hospital in any part
of the world. Even if they are not treating
him, let them pay him his entitlements
when he is still alive. They should not wait
until he dies so that they will come and
pay tributes to him as the best man while
alive,” the family sources said angrily.
Ekwueme was brought to the Akanu
Ibiam International Airport, Enugu with a
National Orthopedic Hospital Enugu, SUV
ambulance at about 7: 26 am and driven
straight into the tarmac, where he was
taken into a waiting air ambulance with
registration number N605 JA. The white
Air Ambulance was said to have arrived
the airport late Saturday evening and
spent the night at the airport.
He was transferred into the aircraft in the
presence of his family members who
escorted him to the airport. The aircraft
took off from the tarmac at about 8:
37am with the family members waving to
wish him a safe trip.
Among the family members present, was
Ekwueme’s daughter Mrs. Onyemelukwe,
who is a running mate to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, governorship
candidate for Saturday’s gubernatorial
election in Anambra State.
The family members had earlier declined
comments on the former vice president’s
illness, saying that they were not in the
mood to speak to the press and did not
need any media coverage.
Vanguard journalist manhandled
Meantime, Vanguard’s State
Correspondent in Enugu, Mr Dennis Agbo,
who witnessed Dr Ekwueme’s airlift was
attacked by soldiers, policemen and other
airport security officials before they
forcefully confiscated his camera, mobile
phone and other working tools. Some of
the securitymen who were attached to
Ekwueme as well as his family members
forcefully deleted all the pictures of the Air
Ambulance from his camera and mobile
phone which they seized, threatening to
visit him personally, if the story of the
incident was published.
Agbo was briefly detained at one of the
offices in the airport, where his mobile
phone and empty camera were later
returned to him.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/ekwueme-fg-not-bearing-cost-treatment/ |
Re: Alex Ekwueme: FG Lied, We Are Bearing Cost Of Treatment - Family [VANGUARD NEWS] by DozieInc(m): 12:56pm On Nov 13, 2017 |
Just like the saying... "You need a hundred more lies to cover up one lie", this administration has perfected that skill. |
Re: Alex Ekwueme: FG Lied, We Are Bearing Cost Of Treatment - Family [VANGUARD NEWS] by magoo10(m): 12:58pm On Nov 13, 2017 |
Apc government and propaganda are like 5&6 |
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