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October 6, 2019
The Economic and FinancialCrimes Commission, EFCC has assured the National Health Insurance Scheme NHISthat it will release the recovered funds of the scheme in its custody, whichthe commission has been holding for safety purposes.
This was contained ina statement by the Head of Press and Public Relations at NHIS, Ayo Osinlu saidthat the acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu gave assurance to release thefund when the NHIS team visited him.
The ExecutiveSecretary of NHIS, Nasir Sambo had led the scheme’s management team on advocacyvisit to the Head Office of EFCC in Abuja.
The statement quotedMagu as saying that the funds were retained in the safety of EFCC custodybecause the agency needed concrete assurance of due process, transparency andaccountability in further handling of the recovered funds.
While pledging thereadiness of the anti-graft body to assist the scheme always, the EFCC bossadvised his NHIS counterpart to intensify his ongoing value reorientationstrategy to deepen the moral tone of staff and stakeholders of the scheme.