The Senate has resolved to investigate the abandoned National Primary Health Centre project initiated by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The N400bn project was aimed at establishing PHCs in all the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria.
Following the adoption of a motion titled ‘Need to Investigate the Abandoned N400bn National Primary Health Centre Project’ at plenary on Wednesday, the Senate mandated its Committees on Health; Primary Health Care and Communicable Diseases; Works; and Housing to carry out the probe.
Sponsor of the motion, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, noted that the project was initiated by the Obasanjo administration in 2006.
He said the project was designed to build in each of the 774 LGAs, a 60-bed PHC to be complemented with a three-bedroom flat doctors’ quarters, an ambulance, all basic hospital equipment and drugs.
Oloriegbe said, “The Senate is disturbed that some of these projects were commenced and abandoned at various stages while the majority of them were never started despite huge sums of money released to all the sub-contractors.”
Adopting the motion, the Senate mandated the committees to “investigate the abandoned N400bn National Primary Health Centre Project initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo across the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria.”
The joint committee was given six weeks to complete the investigation and report back to the chamber in plenary.
