The House of Representatives has
threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against Minister of Health, Professor
Isaac Adewole over his refusal to appear before them to clear suspicions on the
suspension of the Executive Secretary of National Insurance Health Scheme
(NHIS), Usman Yusuf.
Chairman of the House Committee
on Health Services, Chike Okafor, disclosed this after a closed door meeting
with members of the committee.
The committee is currently
investigating the issue and had demanded that the minister appeared before it.
Okafor said the minister had
rather declined the call through a letter, saying: “The House resolution was
communicated to the Health Minister and if you look through our proceedings,
you will see that we were expecting the minister to come tomorrow (today) to
give us an update on the crisis rocking the NHIS.
“But incidentally, I got a letter
from him about an hour ago, saying he will not be available to appear before
this committee. He gave a couple of reasons, which I would still relate to the
committee when we dissolve into an executive session.
“Suffice it to say that the
reasons are not acceptable to me. I was going to direct that we send a letter
back to him as he claimed in his letter that he has engagements that will take
him out of Abuja or that he is already out of Abuja.”
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