Nigerian officials penchant for looting surely knows no bounds as some officials have been caught red-handed stealing $3.8million aid meant to assist the country in battling the scourge of AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.

The stolen money was donated to Nigeria by Global Fund. It was stolen between 2010 and 2014, part of the locust years of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Although Nigeria has agreed to refund the money, Global Fund has applied sanctions on the country, announcing it is suspending aid to Nigeria’s AIDS agency.

The Fund said it has evidence that the money was stolen by workers and consultants of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDs(NACA),

Spokesman Seth Faison said Friday that Nigeria’s government has promised to repay the money to the Geneva-based agency and to prosecute suspects.

A report by the fund’s inspector general says seven government workers and three consultants stole the money over five years between 2010 and 2014.

The report said the fraud continued because the National Agency for the Control of AIDS did not have proper audits.

The missing money is 95 percent of the amount budgeted to implement, administer and train users of a web-based reporting platform but a fraction of the $1.4 billion the fund has spent in Nigeria.

Summary of the Audit by Global Fund:

An Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit of Global Fund grants in Nigeria has identified significant problems in procurement, supply chain, financial and program management. The auditors found discrepancies of over US$4 million between drugs ordered and delivered; US$20 million paid to suppliers without confirmation of delivery; stock-outs of eight months for critical medicines; and a total of US$7.65 million in unsupported expenditures. The Global Fund is reviewing corrective measures, particularly with regard to risk management, identified by the OIG as the root cause of many of the issues.

With more than US$1.4 billion invested since 2003, Nigeria represents the Global Fund’s largest portfolio. Programs to date have contributed to 750,000 people living with HIV/AIDS currently on antiretroviral therapy, 310,000 new smear-positive tuberculosis cases detected and treated and 93.4 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets distributed to prevent the spread of malaria.

Regarding procurement, the OIG found that Principal Recipients, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and the National Malaria Elimination Program do not monitor the deliveries to the central medical store in Lagos of drugs arriving through the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (a system that allows the Global Fund to bulk order health commodities at favorable prices). This resulted in discrepancies in antiretroviral drugs deliveries of US$3.7 million from 2013 to September 2015 and US$0.5 million in artemisinin-based combination therapy drugs. The OIG also identified payments amounting to US$20 million made to a procurement agent without confirmation of services rendered or goods delivered.

The auditors found major weaknesses in supply chain management including ineffective controls over inventory management and distribution directly affecting service delivery to patients in Nigeria. Stock-outs lasting 8 months of critical medicines such as antiretroviral drugs and artemisinin-based combination therapies were found in 42 health facilities visited by the OIG. In addition, HIV commodities worth US$5.4 million had expired in the last two years.

Although the OIG noted minor improvements since the introduction of a fiduciary agent in May 2015, financial management controls were found to be inadequate and ineffective. For example, the auditors identified a total of US$7.65 million of unsupported expenses linked to human resources, payment approval processes and advances management.

Significant weaknesses exist in the internal controls around data collection and reporting processes. This resulted in more than 10% of errors between the data recorded at the facility level and data reported to the state coordinator and the Global Fund. The issues identified were mainly for the HIV and malaria programs. Good practice, however, was observed on data recorded for the tuberculosis programs.

The OIG concluded that the Global Fund’s risk management framework in Nigeria is ineffective. The organization is unable to identify, mitigate and monitor the risks effectively. This explains many of the problems identified by the OIG audit. For example, although the Secretariat introduced the Pooled Procurement Mechanism to the Nigeria portfolio, limited preventative controls are in place to ensure that drugs procured through the mechanism are actually delivered and then distributed.

The Secretariat is currently reviewing a number of corrective actions including assessing potential recoverable funds, internal control deficiencies and the grant recipients’ ability to deliver key Global Fund objectives in Nigeria.



http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/05/breaking-news-nigerian-officials-steal-3-8m-hivaids-money/

$3.8M for helpiNg the sick simply stolen, am tired of this country

What won't they steal? Call it any ugly name, you'll still find them there doing what they know how to do best.


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Corruption more popular than Buhari.

Dey don swear for us in this country.

Thank goodness Nigerians don't have access to heaven.baba God throne would have been stolen tai tai and heaven treasury looted

when they can steal money meant to fightboko haram, this should not sound strange.

Ok.. we hear

probing loading ..............





probe them all

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May they all die of HIV/AIDS. AMEN

Its soo unfortunate....

awon oloriburuku..theres nothing they didnt steal from...later on some people who have sold thier children's future will come here defend criminals..

Africans are the cause and Genesis of their problems.

Na the same HIV go kill dem . . . but seriously, these people are so heartless o, just imagine how many souls were lost within those period. Well, what do you expect when you country president says 'stealing is not corruption' . Bunch of st*pid thieves!! Even money donated to the seriously sick stolen?! god of thunder , wetin you dey look na

I'm so ashamed to be a nigerian.....kaii God.
Which kind country b dis
Popular with bad thinhgs

Even HIV/AIDS money!
This is a serious matter.

okay

What is this country turning into

These all happened during the last administration. And wailers will come and depend thier saviour here.
Have you blame GEJ today? - naa stone we go stone am not only blame

kallmemrB:
Thank goodness Nigerians don't have access to heaven.baba God throne would have been stolen tai tai and heaven treasury looted

Hahahaha, bros i dey work, no make them fire me ooo.

Scam

Davbams:
Corruption more popular than Buhari.

Just to put things in proper perspective.

DExplorer1:
It was stolen between 2010 and 2014, part of the locust years of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/05/breaking-news-nigerian-officials-steal-3-8m-hivaids-money/

This country has been cursed with evil, corrupt, selfish, wicked, senseless, and heartless leaders.

back2sender:
These all happened during the last administration. And wailers will come and depend thier saviour here.
Have you blame GEJ today? - naa stone we go stone am not only blame

. . . that guy nearly ruined Nigeria to the last

SayDeeJay:
Even HIV/AIDS money!
This is a serious matter.

Jonathan was the best thing that happened to this country - even sick peoples money donated by foreign donors was stolen.

...and when they start probing them, some misguided elements would still shout 'witchunt'.

lolzz


kwarupshin

kallmemrB:
Thank goodness Nigerians don't have access to heaven.baba God throne would have been stolen tai tai and heaven treasury looted

kallmemrB:
Thank goodness Nigerians don't have access to heaven.baba God throne would have been stolen tai tai and heaven treasury looted

. . . EPIC!!!

no b today matter na. I haf tayed


person jos wake up in the morning then went ahead to steal money not just any money, but the one for HIV/AIDS paitents.

which kind life be this?

EFCC over to you,

Meanwhile, Angel Gabriel after reviewing 3 files of dead people from Nigeria