Transfers authority to agric ministry
Eniola Akinkuotu , Abuja
A secret order by the Presidency which stripped the Federal
Ministry of Health of the powers of procurement and
transferred the authority to the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development is causing disquiet in the
health sector .
Competent sources within the Presidency and the two
ministries told our correspondent that the secret order ,
which was given by fiat in October 2018 , was caused by a
power play between the then Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac
Adewole , and the President ’s powerful Chief of Staff, Abba
Kyari .
Kyari and Adewole had been involved in many battles , one
of which was caused by the latter ’ s decision to suspend
the then Executive Secretary of the National Health
Insurance Scheme , Prof. Usman Yusuf, a move which was
later overruled by Kyari .
Due to the friction between the two , it was learnt that a
directive was given to the then Permanent Secretary ,
Clement Uwaifo , in October 2018 that all contracts and
procurement related issues must go through the ministry of
agric .
As part of efforts to ensure strict compliance with the new
directive , a new permanent secretary, Dr Abdulkadir Mu’
azu, was deployed in the agric ministry.
Mu’ azu, who is close to the Villa power brokers , was
among one of the seven permanent secretaries that were
recently given extension by the Presidency despite being
due for retirement .
The sources told The PUNCH that a situation was created
whereby every procurement , including the purchase of
stationery, had to go through the ministry of agriculture .
The health ministry, it was learnt , has to get approvals from
the ministry of agriculture to access its N 10 . 5 bn capital
expenditure fund approved in the 2019 budget.
Documents obtained by The PUNCH showed that whenever
the ministry of health wants to make procurement , the
permanent secretary would raise a memo which would be
sent to the permanent secretary of the agric ministry ,
Mu’azu .
It was observed that in some instances , Mu’ azu would
give direct approval while sometimes , he would write a
memo to the Director -General of the Bureau of Public
Procurement , Mamman Ahmadu , who would approve
based on the Procurement Act .
Although there was no protest from the minister in the first
term of Buhari, workers of the ministry and other
stakeholders had started complaining about the
arrangement since the beginning of the current dispensation
.
A senior government official in the ministry of health said
recently , the drugs that were supplied by the ministry of
agric were those meant for animals .
He said, “ This arrangement is shoddy and inimical to the
health sector . Recently, we wrote a memo to the ministry
of agric and they were the ones who picked the contractor
and every other thing . Instead of supplying malaria drugs ,
it was drugs meant for animals that were supplied by their
vets . ”
Speaking with The PUNCH on Thursday , the President of
the Nigeria Medical Association , Dr . Francis Faduyile ,
confirmed the existence of the order and described the
move as “ a disaster waiting to happen .”
He said the situation was inimical to the growth of the
health sector .
Faduyile said he had also investigated the matter and
discovered it to be true .
The NMA President said since Adewole was no longer the
health minister , the arrangement ought to have been
reversed.
Faduyile said , “ What I was told was that there was a
problem of procurement at the ministry of health and based
on that, an instruction was given that all procurements had
to pass through the ministry of agriculture ’ s permanent
secretary .
“ If the health ministry had violated procurement process,
there ought to be proper discipline or corrections but for
this arrangement to go on for this length of time is actually
counter-productive.
“ It is strange and it is really not making things work
appropriately and as swiftly as it should be . Sincerely , the
NMA feels it is not helping situations in the ministry of
health and is frustrating the immediate dispatch of
responses or activities regarding procurement in
government ’ s health establishments .”
Some directors and deputy directors at the health ministry ,
who wished to remain anonymous, told The PUNCH that the
development had made things hard at the ministry.
A director said, “ The situation is very unfortunate . Little
things like stationery can no longer be purchased by the
ministry of health .
We always have to channel all requests to the agric
ministry. We write proposals to agric ministry and then the
agric people would get a supplier and then make payment.
“ The items would then be delivered to the ministry of
health. In almost 30 years of service , I have never
witnessed this sort of thing before. If the agric ministry does
not approve , then we are stuck, at their mercy .
“ The agric ministry is filled with veterinary doctors . It is
these vets that are in charge of procuring drugs on behalf of
the ministry of health while the medical doctors are at their
mercy . We cannot even carry out some medical services at
the moment . Monitoring of projects nationwide has
become a problem because all funds must be approved by
another ministry .”
The Federal Ministry of Health has 119 agencies under it
and is also in charge of formulation and implementation of
policies related to health.
However, the inability of the ministry to get funds promptly ,
it was learnt , had also affected its ability to monitor the
agencies under it .
Attempts to speak with the Head , Press and Public
Relations , Ministry of Health, Mrs Enefaa Bob -Manuel ,
proved abortive as she did not respond to calls .
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity , Garba Shehu , refused to comment on the matter.

https://punchng.com/presidency-secretly-strips-health-
ministry-of-procurement-powers/

AbuEzeFemi:
Transfers authority to agric ministry
Eniola Akinkuotu , Abuja
A secret order by the Presidency which stripped the Federal
Ministry of Health of the powers of procurement and
transferred the authority to the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development is causing disquiet in the
health sector .
Competent sources within the Presidency and the two
ministries told our correspondent that the secret order ,
which was given by fiat in October 2018 , was caused by a
power play between the then Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac
Adewole , and the President ’s powerful Chief of Staff, Abba
Kyari .
Kyari and Adewole had been involved in many battles , one
of which was caused by the latter ’ s decision to suspend
the then Executive Secretary of the National Health
Insurance Scheme , Prof. Usman Yusuf, a move which was
later overruled by Kyari .
Due to the friction between the two , it was learnt that a
directive was given to the then Permanent Secretary ,
Clement Uwaifo , in October 2018 that all contracts and
procurement related issues must go through the ministry of
agric .
As part of efforts to ensure strict compliance with the new
directive , a new permanent secretary, Dr Abdulkadir Mu’
azu, was deployed in the agric ministry.
Mu’ azu, who is close to the Villa power brokers , was
among one of the seven permanent secretaries that were
recently given extension by the Presidency despite being
due for retirement .
The sources told The PUNCH that a situation was created
whereby every procurement , including the purchase of
stationery, had to go through the ministry of agriculture .
The health ministry, it was learnt , has to get approvals from
the ministry of agriculture to access its N 10 . 5 bn capital
expenditure fund approved in the 2019 budget.
Documents obtained by The PUNCH showed that whenever
the ministry of health wants to make procurement , the
permanent secretary would raise a memo which would be
sent to the permanent secretary of the agric ministry ,
Mu’azu .
It was observed that in some instances , Mu’ azu would
give direct approval while sometimes , he would write a
memo to the Director -General of the Bureau of Public
Procurement , Mamman Ahmadu , who would approve
based on the Procurement Act .
Although there was no protest from the minister in the first
term of Buhari, workers of the ministry and other
stakeholders had started complaining about the
arrangement since the beginning of the current dispensation
.
A senior government official in the ministry of health said
recently , the drugs that were supplied by the ministry of
agric were those meant for animals .
He said, “ This arrangement is shoddy and inimical to the
health sector . Recently, we wrote a memo to the ministry
of agric and they were the ones who picked the contractor
and every other thing . Instead of supplying malaria drugs ,
it was drugs meant for animals that were supplied by their
vets . ”
Speaking with The PUNCH on Thursday , the President of
the Nigeria Medical Association , Dr . Francis Faduyile ,
confirmed the existence of the order and described the
move as “ a disaster waiting to happen .”
He said the situation was inimical to the growth of the
health sector .
Faduyile said he had also investigated the matter and
discovered it to be true .
The NMA President said since Adewole was no longer the
health minister , the arrangement ought to have been
reversed.
Faduyile said , “ What I was told was that there was a
problem of procurement at the ministry of health and based
on that, an instruction was given that all procurements had
to pass through the ministry of agriculture ’ s permanent
secretary .
“ If the health ministry had violated procurement process,
there ought to be proper discipline or corrections but for
this arrangement to go on for this length of time is actually
counter-productive.
“ It is strange and it is really not making things work
appropriately and as swiftly as it should be . Sincerely , the
NMA feels it is not helping situations in the ministry of
health and is frustrating the immediate dispatch of
responses or activities regarding procurement in
government ’ s health establishments .”
Some directors and deputy directors at the health ministry ,
who wished to remain anonymous, told The PUNCH that the
development had made things hard at the ministry.
A director said, “ The situation is very unfortunate . Little
things like stationery can no longer be purchased by the
ministry of health .
We always have to channel all requests to the agric
ministry. We write proposals to agric ministry and then the
agric people would get a supplier and then make payment.
“ The items would then be delivered to the ministry of
health. In almost 30 years of service , I have never
witnessed this sort of thing before. If the agric ministry does
not approve , then we are stuck, at their mercy .
“ The agric ministry is filled with veterinary doctors . It is
these vets that are in charge of procuring drugs on behalf of
the ministry of health while the medical doctors are at their
mercy . We cannot even carry out some medical services at
the moment . Monitoring of projects nationwide has
become a problem because all funds must be approved by
another ministry .”
The Federal Ministry of Health has 119 agencies under it
and is also in charge of formulation and implementation of
policies related to health.
However, the inability of the ministry to get funds promptly ,
it was learnt , had also affected its ability to monitor the
agencies under it .
Attempts to speak with the Head , Press and Public
Relations , Ministry of Health, Mrs Enefaa Bob -Manuel ,
proved abortive as she did not respond to calls .
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity , Garba Shehu , refused to comment on the matter.

https://punchng.com/presidency-secretly-strips-health-
ministry-of-procurement-powers/

Imagine the irony of life.....






Rip Sir

He's no more today

Inside Life

Corona seem like a spirit on vengeance

This guys death is a good thing. This is how he thwarted operations at the NSAs office and made himself the Minister of Defence and started controlling the service chiefs and protecting their incompetence.

It is not about how big you were when you die; it is about what you did while you were alive.

Abba Kyari wasn't serving Nigeria; he was serving himself.

He went to Germany for electricity meeting; was he the minister of Power? So, what was he doing in the meeting?

We should stop being hypocritical in this country.

So, good riddance to bad rubbish.

The criminal is dead what a life, useless man.

The health minister too is an Idiot and corrupt. If I were him I will resign Sharp and write a memo and give it to the press.