{"id":139471,"date":"2019-07-30T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139471"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:34:46","slug":"fashola-ambode-may-be-invited-as-lagos-assembly-probes-n7bn-cardio-renal-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139471","title":{"rendered":"Fashola, Ambode may be invited as Lagos Assembly probes N7bn cardio-renal center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday agreed to probe why equipment at the N7 billion cardio-renal center in Gbagada General Hospital were abandoned.<\/p>\n

The centre was commissioned in March 2015 by ex-Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola but allegedly abandoned by immediate past governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.<\/p>\n

Acting Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Akeem Sokunle, and members had embarked on a tour to ascertain health facilities across the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe observed that there is a shortage of manpower, non-functioning ambulances, insecurity, unequipped laboratories and more importantly, abandonment of multi-billion naira cardio-renal facility,\u201d The Nation quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a report that the cardiorenal machines only worked for two weeks before the facility was locked up. Also, most of the sensitive equipment are obsolete,\u201d Sokunle said.<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader, Sanai Agunbiade (Ikorodu 1), said if the equipment of such magnitude are cited in the state, it was for a purpose.<\/p>\n

He, therefore, moved that the suppliers of the equipment be invited for questioning and that the investigation must attract public participation.<\/p>\n

The House resolved give to invite the Ministry of Health to appear before the probe committee to give clarification on issues bothering the facility.<\/p>\n

The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, directed the Clerk of the House, Mr. Azeez Sanni, to write a letter to the Ministry of Health and invite necessary stakeholders on the issue.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, has spoken on his rumoured planned defection from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the opposition People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n

There have been speculations in some quarters that Ambode was disappointed he did not make the ministerial list President Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Nigerian Senate.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday agreed to probe why equipment at the N7 billion cardio-renal center in Gbagada General Hospital were abandoned. The centre was commissioned in March 2015 by ex-Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola but allegedly abandoned by immediate past governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. Acting Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Akeem Sokunle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[7751,41,10698,8259,708],"class_list":["post-139471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-babatunde-raji-fashola","tag-buhari","tag-gov-ambode","tag-lagos-assembly","tag-lagos-state-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}