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CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS FACING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE BY DOCTORS IN NIGERIA.

The medical profession evolves, it grows and the doctor is the leader. This self-evident fact will not change. The profession did not start in Nigeria and will not end in Nigeria. It is universal. The Nigerian aberration of the universal norm in the healthcare industry, like other aberrations will only add to the reasons we are the world’s laughing stock.
The present challenges are a manifestation of failures of members of the profession starting especially from the 1980s .
We went against the grain of government policy in the mid-1970s designed to train doctors who at the end of medical
school would be mini specialists in the four broad fields of Medicine viz: medicine, surgery, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology. He is meant to be able to hold his
ground in any of the four fields and provide primary and secondary expertise with ease.
Everyone who went to medical school in Nigeria will attest that the training is along this policy. However, as we as a people in Nigeria have done in all sectors, we put personal
ego and interest over and above the common interest and trivialized the MBBS
What we are using today as the basis for how medical doctors are trained in medical school’s in Nigeria, bore in mind the all import fact that once you graduate from medical school you are already a BASIC SPECIALIST in every field, this is the system that is employed in the UK and we simply carried it over in Nigeria,
Whereby your medical training is divided into two parts, the 1st part being the pre-clinical where you do anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and community health. Then, you now proceed to the clinical where you do medicine, surgery and community medicine.. the rotation is such that to go through all the different subspecialty‘s under these three including pharmacology and pathology.!
So once you leave medical school your degree isn’t the same thing as some-one who went to for example, school of nursing and midwifery, a diploma certificate or even a 1st degree(Bsc).
You become a General Practitioner with Basic specialist knowledge in every field and as you progress along the GP cadre also known as the medical officer cadre the expectation is on promotion to an SMO, PMO and finally CMO. You will have acquired commensurate surgical and medical skill to make you poly-efficient and self-sustaining to provide satisfactory health services to an average Nigerian who lives in the rural setting, without making it binding on him(the rural dweller) to mandatorily come to an urban centre before he can access such quality health care, and also serves as the basis for referrals from the rural/semi-urban centre’s to the cities when the services of a specialist in a particular field are required.
This is the reason and still remains the only reason why medical training as a student is so stressful and vigorous, because the founding fathers have seen that the medical and surgical needs of the Nigerian Nation will not be achieved adequately if the system that produced the doctors is not properly tailored in a direction that is sustainable.
And they also acknowledged the fact that producing unidirectional specialist in every field is not self-sustaining in meeting the multiple health needs of the nation. Since it is not realistic to have every specialist in all the fields, all in the same place, at the same time and in every health facility in the country.
But it is possible and very practicable to have a well experienced General Practioner in all the rural health facilities in every local government area of this country meeting the health needs of Nigerians.
98% of SR’s, Consultants, Profs and Medical Elders today as has being stratified by themselves will on no account want to work in a rural setting, so they have concentrated themselves in the Big cities/Urban centres and have with so much disdain and utter disrespect trivialized the MBBS that is the basis of medical practice in Nigeria.
We went against the grain of government policy and trivialized the MBBS. We carry on like being a Consultant is sine qua non for a "proper" doctor and Medical Officers/General Practioners are retards that managed to become doctors and should not be taken seriously. Everything was for and about the Consultant in this country whether or not he had the “Expected” skill, exposure and knowledge on how to handle the Job, it was principally about acquiring the title of consultant, not because they wanted to get their hands dirty by being more involved at the levels of healthcare where different cadre of medical officers are working to further boost on their job capacity building but because it was seen as a relaxation spot where you get more salary purely because of status.
A young doctor who is convinced from his observation of the treatment meted out to non consultants, that the fastest way to making the elusive" it" is by becoming a consultant. He seeks out the fastest and easiest path to becoming a consultant usually residency in laboratory medicine (less Histopathology) or public health. To worsen matters they leave all procedures to the JOHESU people while they just flaunt their doctorhood. Leadership that is not based on anything other than status can never be sustained, especially not in a knowledge and skill based environment.
The JOHESU people recognized the fact that there is nothing the doctor in the laboratory brings to the table which they don't have and probably even more. They set out to take over the laboratory via hard nosed politicking, lobbying and bare faced impunity. They have achieved this. Now they seek to take over the hospital because they misconstrue the other hospital doctors to be the same as their laboratory colleagues and all they need do is acquire the title" Dr." via genuine and phony PhDs and get appointed Consultants. By virtue of decree 10, that is what you must be to be appointed Chief Medical Director of a Federal Teaching Hospital. Next they will have the decree amended to accommodate consultants other than medical doctors.
The JOHESU people took a cue from that. They don't just want to be equal to doctors ( they have achieved that through CONHESS) ; they want to be consultants.
The medical officers also didn't help matters. They tacitly accepted that they're second rate and not good enough. Thus you see a doctor 15 years post registration, on the rank of PMO1 going "back to school" to commence residency. Subconsciously he is convinced that the decade and half he has practiced is useless because he didn't have the designation "Consultant", obviously because he has noticed that an average consultant feels he has sacrificed “too much” to become one so he believes he is entitled to special treatment and demands for it. He treats all who are not with disdain and utter disrespect.
Because as it stands today the is practically no financial difference between CONMESS and CONHESS, by the actions of our consultants and medical elders who have over trivialized the hard earned MBBS by making it look cheap in the eyes of other professionals.
The honest truth is that even our colleagues’ who assume the top positions of the medical profession as doctors have contributed significantly to where we are today, unfortunately the residency programme as it is designed today ends up producing timid doctors instead of giants.. Doctors who don't have the guts to standup for their fellow colleagues’ purely because they want to pass an exam or the want a certain favour from the so-called "oga at the top".
Residents in my centre are totally un-aware of what is going on in the health sector, simply because they believe that once they become consultants they are on-top of the world..
so they don't even know what is happening around them, an allied professional asked the question that how many even pass to become consultants and the answer is a staggering few..
Has passing the exams become a tribal/religious affair? Where doctors from a certain part of the country pass while other from some other part fail, must a doctor turn another fellow doctor to a houseboy or a driver so that he can influence what happens when he goes for exams? Must i dress shabby to show that i am a resident doctor?
during my houseman-ship my own consultant said that house officers shouldn't be paid salary, shouldn't have teaching allowance, should have their call duty allowance halved in two or better still removed.! The SR's under them agreed that we where "medical students+"..
and this is the degrading and sadly unhealthy view of over 85% of residents, because they have become cowards instead of giants, and carrying over the myopic mentality of our senior colleagues’..
2/3rds of NARD is composed of house-officers and medical officers.. And incidentally this unacceptable thinking of consultants has infiltrated afew members of this noble body to begin to act like the leadership of NARD belongs only to Resident doctors.. Undermining the real reason why NARD was setup..!
It breaks my heart to see how low we have fallen in the general scheme of things..
Our allied professionals are doing internship [nurses/pharmacist/physiotherapist/radiotherapist. etc..], receiving shift & call allowance, Specialist allowance, Offs[PH, Night Off, etc], going on career developing courses..
yet my own doctor colleague who is my senior in this noble profession of medicine believes i should remain a slave under the guise of what i am doing is humanitarian? as such i don't need to be paid salary or receive any allowance? are we the only persons doing humanitarian service??
It will never be well with these individuals, because i can name Doctors [SR's/consultants/profs] who are still advocating for other cadre of doctors to remain as beggars till today and who are still practicing in our hospitals.. and unfortunately want to be policy makers in the health sector.
Every other sector is protecting their own except our highly protected and over-ratted "OGA's/Chiefs/Consultants/Medical Elders" when there is a salary increase. Theirs is 10times that of any other person.. Nobody is complaining about that.. we are simply saying protect us because we are one and the same body.? but this is to big a request to make and therefore our elders cannot accept.
nurses moved from grade level 5 to 7, their own Oga's didn't say that the salary was to much for those young nurses..
when our own Oga's where approached for us to move from grade level 9 to 11, they said that the salary will be too much for the young doctors, and instead of the move to 11, our salary should be halved and all allowances stripped off, some even advocated that we start paying school fees??
for God's sakes...
At-times i really regret why i even read medicine and why i am even a resident to begin with.?
it has become a cause to be a doctor in this country..

Today all a nurse needs as qualification to become a CNO (Chief Nursing Officer) is RN&RM i.e Registered Nurse & Registered Midwife, which is not even equal to a diploma not even to mention a Bsc and yet they are on the same rank as a PMO or a Consultant and this has being the weather forecast in almost every sector of the hospital as it stands today.
The solution lies in reforming the system of remuneration of doctors. As it stands now doctors' remuneration is not geared to the complexity, the skills and training needed to carry out procedures . A neurosurgeon gets paid the same amount as a chemical pathologist if they both are on CONMESS 5. A Chief Medical officer who carries out surgeries like thyroidectomy and hip replacement gets paid less than a public health physician on CONMESS 7 because he doesn't get paid specialist allowance.
Each procedure should be evaluated and costed by Actuaries and a doctor who performs them should get a percentage of the cost according to his rank , expertise and experience. What we have now CONMESS should be the base pay each doctor earns.
2. We must all skip 1 level and for those already on 7, CONMESS 8 must be created to accommodate them
3. Retirement age for all doctors at 75ys
4. Specialist allowance for all doctors
5. Excess workload allowance commensurate with the work we are doing
6. Revert to call duty being a percentage of our basic salary
7. All doctors on salary grades equivalent to that of assistant directors and above should get the things that come with such offices such as allowances for domestic servants, drivers, newspaper, vacation etc.
This I believe will finally put to rest all the agitation going on in the health sector as all their aspirations can be reduced to asking for a bigger portion of resources allocated to emolument of healthcare labour Provided.
DR. JIMMY IDAMA [FORMER ARD PRESIDENT KSSH LOKOJA-KOGI STATE].

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Central Bank Governor, Sanusi
Lamido, wrote this
on his facebook page today
(25/3/2013)
"In a country where
corruption is the order of
the day and ever when one
try to rephrase the
strength and blood of our
founding fathers, there are
some people some where
who do not want our
agenda and mission to be
accomplished. Today i
come out to tell every
Nigerian's that second
tenure is not for me. God
Bless Nigeria."
"As the Governor of the
CBN, i am only entitled to
N25,000 per night for my
local trips and our Senators
and House of Reps
Members are entitled to
N500,000 per night for
their local trips, I asked for
the cutting down of their
salaries and they all went
against my policy. My
tenure expire in June 2014
and i want all Nigerians
home and abroad to put all
hands on deck to bring in
someone that will surpass
me and be able to take the
financial matters of our
great nation to the next
step. Nigeria is not a
country where one man
can do it all, it is a
collective effort and i use
this medium to call on our
youth from all works (O.P.C,
NIGER-DELTA, THE BAKASSI
BOYS, THE NORTHERN'S) To
stand up and embrace the
emancipation. Long live
the Federal Republic Of Nigeria."

OSHIMOLE PUTS LABARAN MAKU ON FULL BLAST

LOL!!! Edo State Governor, Adams Oshimole has put Minister for Information, Labaran Maku and his Good governance team on blast. He said that the Good Governance team had sent in a proposal, imploring him to provide accommodation, feeding and logistics for over 120 delegates, when they visit the state next week.

According to Gov.Oshimole: “Whenever Edo State government officials travel to Abuja for official duties, the state takes responsibility and not the Federal Government.So, it is not proper to use Edo State tax payers’ money to finance a Federal Government programme. If they pay me a courtesy visit, I will receive them, but I don’t have a dime to spend on them because I do not need them to come to tell Edo people how I built roads and schools. My achievement speaks for me.”

LWKMD!! Well said, Your Excellency!
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1. FAROUK: To collect bribe and deny it at same time.
2. FAROUKED: Past tense of 'farouk'
3. FAROUKER: A person who farouks.
4. FAROUKEE: A person who is farouked.
5. FAROUKISH: Having the appearance of, or relating to bribery and denial.
6. FAROUKOLOGY: The scientific study of bribe collection and denial of evidence.
7. FAROUKISM: The political ideology/concept of bribery and cover-ups.
8. FAROUKIOSIS: A chronic disorder of bribe taking and denial.
9. FAROUKMENT: A system of farouking.
10. FAROUKISTICALLY: Carried out or done in a way that suggests a farouk.
11. FAROUKICIDE: An act exhibited by a farouker that is capable of causing someone to farouk.
12. FAROUKXY: Being in the mood or setting out strategies to farouk.
13. FAROUKOUTANCY: Identification and analysis of a farouked person(s) for decision making.
14. FAROUKIOLYSIS: The act of destroying or conceiving bribery evidence so as to frustrate prosecution.
15. FAROUKOMA; A sudden growth of greed that leads to an aborisation and an endless desire to demand and collect bribe without a pre-thought to realize the consequences thereof.
16. FAROUKECTOMY: A surgical procedure for the removal of faroukoma.

1. FAROUK: To collect bribe and deny it at same time.
2. FAROUKED: Past tense of 'farouk'
3. FAROUKER: A person who farouks.
4. FAROUKEE: A person who is farouked.
5. FAROUKISH: Having the appearance of, or relating to bribery and denial.
6. FAROUKOLOGY: The scientific study of bribe collection and denial of evidence.
7. FAROUKISM: The political ideology/concept of bribery and cover-ups.
8. FAROUKIOSIS: A chronic disorder of bribe taking and denial.
9. FAROUKMENT: A system of farouking.
10. FAROUKISTICALLY: Carried out or done in a way that suggests a farouk.
11. FAROUKICIDE: An act exhibited by a farouker that is capable of causing someone to farouk.
12. FAROUKXY: Being in the mood or setting out strategies to farouk.
13. FAROUKOUTANCY: Identification and analysis of a farouked person(s) for decision making.
14. FAROUKIOLYSIS: The act of destroying or conceiving bribery evidence so as to frustrate prosecution.
15. FAROUKOMA; A sudden growth of greed that leads to an aborisation and an endless desire to demand and collect bribe without a pre-thought to realize the consequences thereof.
16. FAROUKECTOMY: A surgical procedure for the removal of faroukoma.

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Mr. Globe:
Go and find somewhere else to take your rants to. I wonder how you are a doctor with this hate spewing from you. You are a disgrace to your profession. I challenge you to post your name so we can advise the NMA to withdraw your license as well. Rubbish. They go pay you 10 million a month because you are a bloody doctor

"Bloody Doctor" u where certainly raised in an orphanage and u're childish rant is excusable.
anyone whose life has bin saved by a doctor would give a more balanced perspective and see reason with Doctors in lagos..
ITS ONLY IN NIGERIA THAT DOCTORS HAVE TO EVEN CREATE TIME TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE GOVERNMENT ON HOW THEY CAN PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE FOR THEIR FAMILIES, while attending to their humanity-based profession. MAY BE DOCTORS SHOULD BE CATERED FOR BY THE PEOPLE THEY SERVE, JUST LIKE PASTORS AND PRIESTS instead of being govt workers.

I have no single idea why doctors can be classified as state or federal go...vernment workers. I am sorry to be making comparisons. here in Japan, all doctors have the same salary scale under the federal government. There is even nothing to negotiate here. Other healthworkes know their level too.

NEWS: Fashola flies father abroad for treatment; Uni-Lag VC dies of heart attack in Lagos. Sorry , no time to fly him abroad.
Advice: Lagos state govt, pls buy more Air Ambulances! And it should not serve only members of Fashola's extended family.
Nigeria we hail thee

REDs house: Since u ve accepted that ur service is humanitarian job why don't yu look up to God for reward cos no amount of increment by govt can satisfy ones need and also alowing innocent people you are destine to save their lives die helplessly infront. I believe if you are in govt or in same position as the commisioner for health you may do worse

I don't need to answer you on this matter..! u are just all-round deficient.

Doctors in the Lagos State public service recently embarked on an industrial action to press home demands for improved conditions of service. As there was stalemate in the negotiations the striking doctors sued the Lagos State Government at the National Industrial Court. The suit was filed on behalf of the doctors by their Counsel, Mr Bamidele Aturu. Upon the service of the court processes on the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice the Government proceeded to dismiss the 788 doctors including professors and consultants at the Lagos State University College of Medicine. The subversion of the rule of law did not end with the said dismissal as the doctors have since been ordered to vacate their official quarters "with immediate effect" or face eviction.

It would be recalled that when the doctors went on strike last year i led some civil society organizations to intervene in the matter. Our appeals to both sides to save the lives of poor Lagosians who patronize public medical centres and the interventions of other well meaning organizations and individuals led to the suspension of the strike. Two years ago, I had worked with Dr. Dipo Fasina, former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) in resolving the last strike by the LASU branch of ASUU. In both instances and similar other cases never hesitated to draw the attention of striking workers and the Government to the provisions of the Labour Act, Trade Dispute Act and the Constitution. Last Sunday we held a meeting of leaders of the human rights community on the strike. After the meeting we set the engine in motion to meet the representatives of the doctors and the Government . We were
however taken aback when it was announced that the doctors had been sacked by the Government. In the circumstances I had no other alternative than to join issues with the Government on the legal implications of the dismissal and ejection of the doctors from their official quarters. I hereby wish to comment on the two issues seriatim:

(1) Illegal Dismissal of Doctors.

It is not in dispute that the power to "hire and fire" staff is vested in employers of labour. But workers who embark on strike cannot, ipso facto, be fired by the management without recourse to the provisions of the Trade. Dispute Act. In this case, the doctors have approached the NIC to resolve the trade dispute pursuant to the provisions of Section 251 of the amended Constitution of the Republic. Once the court processes were served on the Lagos State Government it ought to have allowed the legal process to run its full course. But b engaging in self help the Lagos State Government decided the court process with contempt and thereby sabotage the rule of law. Even under a military dictatorship the Supreme Court had cause to warn the Lagos state Government to desist from taking any action that was capable of presenting the court with a fait accompli. See The Military Governor of Lagos State v Chief Emeka Ojukwu(1986) 2 NWLR (pt 18) 621. As the respondent (Ojukwu) was ejected when he had already sued the Government the apex court ordered that he be restored to the disputed house before the appellant (Lagos State Government) could be heard in the case. The order was promptly complied with.

When Justice Ayo Salami was suspended last year by President Goodluck Jonathan on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council the Federal Government was berated for taking the action when the matter was pending at the Federal High Court. It was pointedly made clear that the Federal Authorities had violated the principle of law enunciated in the Ojukwu's case by resorting to self help. Since what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander the Lagos State Government which has been in the forefront in the campaign for the operation of the rule of law in Nigeria should rescind the dismissal of the doctors and allow the NIC to hear and determine the case. Since the doctors had, suo motu, invoked the jurisdiction of the NIC they would have been ordered to resume work by the court before the commencement of the proceedings.

(2) Illegal Eviction of Doctors.

In an eviction notice dated 8th May, 2012 the dismissed doctors were directed to vacate their official quarters with immediate effect. It has been reported that the doctors would be forcefully ejected from the quarters if they fail to comply with the quit notice. It is embarrassing that the Lagos State Government has refused to appreciate the distinction between a contractual tenancy and statutory tenancy. It is trite law that employees who reside in official quarters by virtue of their employment are contractual tenants and remain so throughout the period of the employment. Where however, the contract is determined for any reason whatsoever the employees automatically become statutory tenants if they fail to relinquish the official residence.

The provision of the law is clear on the fundamental preconditions for taking over possession of premises in Lagos State. Statutory notices are necessary prerequisites for the grant of possession.The Lagos State Tenancy Law, 2011 has made adequate provisions for the various notices required to be given to tenants by a landlord before applying for the recovery of premises. Having become statutory tenants the sacked doctors are entitled to the necessary notices in compliance with the law before they can be removed from the official residence by a competent court of law.

In the case of African Petroleum Ltd v Owodunni (1991) 8 N.W.L.R (Pt. 209) 396 the Supreme Court held inter alia: “Sometimes a statute gives security of tenure to a tenant after his contractual tenancy has expired. Where such a statute exists, such a tenant then holds such a premises no longer as a contractual tenant, because there no longer exists a contract between him and the landlord, but he retains possession by virtue of the provisions of the statute and is entitled to all the benefits and is subject to all the terms and conditions of the original tenancy” See also Pan Asian African Co. Ltd v N.I.C.O.N (1982) 9 S.C 1 at 13.

In the light of the foregoing we urge the Lagos State Government to withdraw the illegal quit notices and be guided by the provisions of the Lagos State Tenancy Law 2011 if it is desirous to recover possession of the official quarters allocated to the doctors. A government which requires citizens to comply with the law cannot afford to breach the law.

In a manner akin only to what obtains in the fiefdoms of the medieval ages, and surpassing what used obtain in the draconian dictatorial government of a certain dark-googled Nigerian infantry General whose demise was well-celebrated in the late 90s, the Governor of Lagos State has shown how common sense is the most uncommon thing to come-by. Supposedly a SAN, Fashola has acted shamelessly and disgracefully. The nitty-gritty of this, you all know. So, I will not bother you with the basics.

However, what has enraged me is the level of stark ignorance and bias that has typified a chunk of the comments of a large section of the public and Fashola appologetics. These are what I want to address.

To start with, Tinubu (the feudal Lord of South-West political milieu) claims they pay the "youngest of them" #170,000. Good. What he failed to tell his audience is that these "youngest of them" are LEVEL 12 civil servants; very senior civil servants for that matter. And that the actual basic salary is less than #130,000. The question is: How many other civil servants in that level earns less? Yet, how many goes to work at 8:00am and closes by 4:00pm the NEXT day every weekday? How many goes to work on Friday morning and closes on Monday evening?

Some claim the doctor work is a humanitarian service. Yes, I agree. That is why we are not asking for what commiserate with our work input. What we only ask for is what will enable us afford the minimal standard needed for our survival in the increasingly lopsided Nigerian society. Last time I checked, we are supposed to pay house rents, water bill,light bill, children school fees, patients bill (surprised?), transport fares.... Or are these free for doctors? Aren't we supposed to wear clothes to work? These does not even include feeding! This is preposterous! Maybe you should compare us with a primary school-leaver (called councillor) who 'earns' over #300,000 monthly for sitting on a table for less than 4hrs in less than 4 days a week, which is just a minute fraction of his take-home pay! Let's not even talk of the senators.

I remember during my service. A fellow corper asked why I am being paid more. I asked him when he entered school, to which he replied '2005'. The truth is that if I had gone for his course, I would be Serving already by that time! So, I would have had 5 yrs working experience by the time I was serving with him. Imagine what I would be earning then. The same is the case now too.

Everyday, we doctors jettison our family, our private life, our comfort, our social life and our religious life to "save" human life and ensure comfortable life for others. We sacrifice everything for the sake of others. Yet, it is an offence to demand the little we need to keep us alive to continue to keep serving humanity. To say that the same people we sacrifice our living for are the ones against us is even more unfortunate. But then, we wont be deterred.

On a parting note, I must say this. Fashola is replacing experience and integrity with desperation and incompetence. By replacing highly experienced and trusted doctors with desperate doctors who have either just finished school or have been frustratingly languishing in the corridors of private hospitals, treating only malaria and typhoid, he aims to solve the healthcare problems in Lagos. What a pity. I can only imagine the worst.

Finally, to the doctors taking up appointments, a Yoruba adage says "pashon ti a fi na iyale....". I need not say more.

Colleagues,
1. I am a spine surgeon employed at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada Abuja as a consultant.
2. I was a fellow of Scoliosis Research Society at the New York Hospital for Joint Diseases, US in August 2010 under the tutelage of Dr Baron S Lonner.
3. At the completion of my training, Dr Baron S Lonner on my behalf approached Samantha Torres of DePuy Spine Inc US for donation of spine equipment to help operate indigent patients in Nigeria to put to practice all I have learnt with him.
4. On the 15th December 2010, DePuy Spine Inc US approved the donation of some spine items for use by me at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.
5. I contacted my hospital management who informed me to ship the equipment to Nigeria.
6. My clearing agent Siklaw Global Resource Ltd after completing the Form M and risk assessment paid the custom duty on the 6th march 2011.
7. The equipment was shipped in to Nigeria from the US and arrived in May 2011.
8. On arrival, the O/C (Custom Services) Mr Wakama GAP inspected the document and said that we must settled him before he release the good since the donated equipment has a value of about N50 million.
9. I instructed the clearing agent to refuse to part with any money.
10. In order to frustrate the release of the equipment he refused to examine or release the equipment till it incurred a demurrage of N27, 800.00. His Immediate boss intervene and directed him to inspect and release the equipment
11. In-order to justify his delay in inspecting the goods, he wrote a report that we undervalued the goods so as to evade payment of the requisite custom duty
12. Due to his greed; the need to justify his action and covered his crime he forgot that medical equipment and donated materials for humanitarian purpose do not attract any duty
13. This issue dragged on till 15th July 2011, when I wrote an official petition to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Custom Service.
14. There was no response from the Nigeria Custom Service till October 2011 when I officially reported the case to ICPC for further action
15. In November, I was invited by the investigation officer from Nigeria Custom Service to tell my story
16. I was informed by the investigating officer that I have not done anything wrong and that the officer knows that too and that the equipment will be brought to the hospital for me.
17. Since November till date, the equipment is still at the storage which the Nigeria Custom Service has refused to release
18. I have discharged home to die many patients who would have benefited from this equipment.
19. I wanted the government to investigate this claim and appropriate sanction should be applied to this irresponsible officer whose greed has led to death of many indigent patients in Nigeria, yet I have not received any correspondence from them.
This is the story of Nigeria, where thieves have taken up our lives and greed is our religion.