By Adadareporters
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has suspended the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Moses Ekuma as well as his Housing and Urban Development counterpart, Francis Ori.
Their suspension was stated on Monday during the weekly state Executive Council meeting held in Abakaliki.
The statement, signed by the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation on Tuesday, Jude Okpor, read, “Following cases of gross misconduct and dereliction of duties by some government officials and matters related thereto, the Chairman of Council directed the indefinite suspension of the Honourable Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development and months suspension of the Honourable Commissioner for Health respectively.”
Recall that Governor Nwifuru on Saturday ordered for the arrest of six civil servants that were caught selling hospital materials meant to be distributed for free.
The arrest was revealed in a statement in Abakaliki, on Sunday, by Governor Francis Nwifuru’s Chief Press Secretary, Monday Uzor.
The statement read, “The Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has ordered the arrest and prosecution of one Mr Ndukwe Ayansi and five others for allegedly diverting materials meant for the state’s Ministry of Health.
“The governor, on his way to a project inspection, sighted a Toyota Dyana truck loading registers, books and other materials from the warehouse in the Ministry of Health.
“The governor drove in and made inquiries but not satisfied with the answers given, probed further and discovered that patients’ data registers, cards and a host of other documents were moved into the vehicle. “It was also discovered that all the documents had been sold without government approval.”
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