PDP Asks PTF to Account for N5bn Presidential Grant to NCDC
The Peoples Democratic Party wednesday called on the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to account for the N5 billion released by President Muhammadu Buhari, as special intervention fund to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control .
The party, in a statement that was issued by the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, was worried over the recent frightening complains by the NCDC that it was in desperate need of essential COVID-19 extraction kits required to tackle the pandemic and safeguard Nigerians at this critical time.
The party, therefore, demanded that the PTF should immediately come clean on the whereabouts of the fund and also explain why it had failed to heed the calls by Nigerians to engage indigenous researchers, virologist and manufacturers for home grown solutions, particularly in the production of drugs, text kits as well as ventilators, despiteAccording to the PDP, there is fear whether the NCDC intervention fund has not been placed under the control of an alleged corrupt cabal in the PTF, where it...
The PDP, therefore, demanded for the immediate reorganisation of the PTF to eliminate all underlining political impediments and allow known medical experts to step in and effectively galvanise our public and private institutions for solution.
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