Foreign Medical Trip: Reps propose seven-year imprisonment, N500m fine for officials

 The Law should be backdated to jail Buhari, says Femi Aribisala  A bill seeking to prescribe a jail term of seven years and/or a fine of N500m for officials who spend public funds on foreign medical trips narrowly passed second reading at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Sponsored by Sergius Ogun (PDP, Edo), the proposed legislation is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to amend the National Health Act, 2014; and for related matters’. Leading the debate on the bill, Ogun noted that the objective of the proposed law was to amend the Act “so as to make provision

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