EfccIThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has again retrieved a sum of N900 million for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The EFCC’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the council’s spokesperson claimed that the amount was a part of the money some banks fraudulently refused to remit into the Treasury Single Account for NHIS, since 2015.
According to the statement, the retrieved fund was released to NHIS on February 8, 2023.
It was reported that the Council had on February 10, 2022 released a sum of N1.5 billion of NHIS withheld by some financial institutions.
Uwujaren recalled, “This is in addition to the N1,400,000,000 earlier released to the Scheme on August 5, 2022.”
Owing to the efforts of the Council in recovering the withheld funds, the Secretary of NHIS, Prof. Muhammad Sambo, had on July 29, 2021, commended the EFCC.
