FG To Recover Millions Wrongly Paid To 588 Doctors

The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.

This was stated by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja.

He explained that affected doctors wrongly benefited from Medical Residency Training Fund meant for particular category of doctors.

He said the names of the doctors were uncovered after a thorough investigation of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Directors of Federal Government health institutions for the training programme.

The minister, however, revealed that a substantial amount of the money had been refunded by some of the affected doctors while efforts had been intensified to recover the balance.

He maintained that the delay in making the refund by the affected doctors was holding back the Residency Fund payment by the government.