The Public Account Committee of the House of Representatives has queried the management of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS led by Professor Nasiru Sambo for flouting extant laws to operate without audited Account for six years.
The Committee uncovered the anomaly and queried the Agency for this infraction at an investigative hearing bothering on the audit of the accounts of government agencies.
At the hearing which is to investigate the refusal of non-treasury funded and partially funded agencies to render their audited accounts covering the period 2014-2018 to the Auditor-General of the Federation, the lawmakers were stunned by the response of the NHIS Executive Secretary.
Read Also: Brexit day of reckoning as UK MPs vote on PM Johnson’s deal
Sambo who was grilled alongside the Chief Auditor of the agency, John Okon had told the lawmakers that there is no audited accounts in the Agency for the period under review owing to the frequent change of its Chief Executive Officer.
The Committee faulted the response from the agency noting that it goes contrary to extant public sector financial regulations.
The lawmakers consequently have ordered for a comprehensive status enquiry into the activities of the agency with a view to ascertaining how their health insurance coverage has been carried out in the last six years.
