FG To Recover Salaries Wrongly Paid To 588 Doctors

The Federal Government of Nigeria has made moves to recover alleged millions of naira which have been wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.

This was disclosed on Sunday by Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, while he spoke to State House correspondents in Abuja.

He stated:

”The Ministry of Health has gotten the list of doctors who supposedly are to benefit from the Medical Residency Training Fund.

”Total submission of about 8,000 names were gotten and the Ministry of Health is scrutinising them.

”We have done the first round of scrutinization and they will now compare what they have with the Post-Graduate Medical College and the Chief Medical Directors who submitted the names.

“The Association of Resident Doctors, in each of the tertiary centres, worked with the CMDs to produce those names, but now that the names are being verified.

”We discovered that about 2,000 names shouldn’t be there because they don’t have what is called Postgraduate Reference Numbers of National Postgraduate Medical College and (or) that of the West African Postgraduate Medical College.

“So, this is it and that is the only thing holding back the Residency Fund payment because it is there already for incurred expenditure has been done by the Finance Minister and it’s in the Accountant-General’s office,” he added.

Source: Ripples Nigeria

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