SOML-PforR: Why Senior Officials Of The Saving One Million Lives Programme Were Suspended
Faith Ukanwa
Jun 17, 2021
Two senior officials of the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Result (SOML-PforR), has been suspended by the Kwara State Government.
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The SOML-PforR is an initiative to improve the state of maternal and child health, nutrition and population.
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The suspended officials are the SOML-PforR State Programme Manager, Dr Ibrahim Omar, and the Programme Accountant, Alabi Rahman.
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They were suspended to allow for a probe into an alleged mismanagement of N170m SOML-PforR fund.
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According to a statement, signed by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Health, Falade Gbenga, a preliminary probe into the allegations revealed "some inconsistencies," and efforts to get the officials to offer explanations and verification were "being deliberately frustrated."
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It added that the officials were being suspended from the programme to "enhance uninterrupted investigation," urging them to cooperate with the intra-ministerial investigative committee impaneled to look into the "financial transactions of the SOML-PforR between December 2019 and May 2021".
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— Faith Ukanwa