Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has called for investigation into the spending of budgeted funds for the State House Medical Centre.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife made the call in Abuja on Monday at the opening of a two-day Stakeholders meeting on RMNCAH+N – Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition.
She lamented the “lack of facilities”, including syringes, at the centre despite the huge budgetary allocation and ongoing construction there.
“Few weeks ago I was sick as well, they advised me to take the first flight out to London I refused to go. I said I must be treated in Nigeria because there is a budget for an assigned clinic to take care of us,” Aisha Buhari said.
“If the budget is N100 million, we need to know how the budget is spent. Along the line I insisted they call Aso Clinic to find out if the X-ray machine is working, They said it is not working. They didn’t know I am the one that was supposed to be in that hospital at that very time.”
