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<\/p>\nThe resolution came following a motion of urgent national importance moved by a member from Bayelsa State, Mr. Diri Douye.<\/p>\n
The session was presided over by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara.<\/p>\n
Douye while debating his motion on Tuesday described the NHIS as \u201ctheatre of war.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recalling how Yusuf was twice queried earlier in the year by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, Douye said \u201cPart of the query was that he spent N17million on a trip outside the country. He was suspended but he was surprisingly recalled by the Presidency.<\/p>\n
\u201dLet us investigate this crisis and the operations of the NHIS as our country is becoming a banana republic.\u201d<\/p>\n
A member from Plateau State, Mr Edward Pwajok (SAN) also speaking called on the Ad hoc committee to investigate whether the Council had the powers to suspend the Executive Secretary.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe law provides that Mr President shall appoint the ES on the advice of the Minister of Health according to Section 8 of the constitutional act.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the person who appoints that can also suspend. The committee should first look deeply into this area as well,\u201d Pwajok said.<\/p>\n
At the end of the plenary, an ad hoc committee of the House was empowered to conduct the investigation within four weeks.<\/p>\n
The committee will thereafter summon Adewole, Yusuf and Ifenne to appear and testify at the National Assembly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The House of Representatives on Tuesday has passed a motion to investigate the crisis at the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS. The resolution came following a motion of urgent national importance moved by a member from Bayelsa State, Mr. Diri Douye. The session was presided over by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara. Douye while debating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21519,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[503,5900],"class_list":["post-54918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-national-assembly","tag-nhis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54918","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=54918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}