The Executive Secretary, Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Rasaq Akindele, has denied that the State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, is plotting to divert the agency’s funds illegally.
Akindele disclosed this when speaking with journalists in Osogbo, the state capital, on Tuesday, following speculation that the Executive Secretary was deployed to the agency with a view of squandering over N2billion funds available within the organisation for the purchase of services for enrollees.
Dr Akindele said the governor has no ulterior motives for deploying him to the agency but to deliver on his mandate of ensuring access to quality healthcare delivery to the teeming populace of the state.
He noted that the funds of the agency would be expended in line with the law that established it, no money would be diverted illegally.
“If you get to a hospital where you find things not properly done, I am sure nobody would want to asses healthcare there. It is true we want good health and we are buying that.
“OHIS also have provisions for us to make health facilities habitable. It is not true that anybody wants to move money away from OHIS for anything illegal.
“The government is serious about the health provision for the people. If there is money, then there are laws that guides how we are to spend the money.
“Money that is meant for drug cannot be use to buy equipment while the one meant for equipment can not be use for renovation. There are specific laws that dictate what we spend on what for us to have a universal and quality health.
“The insinuation is far from being true but what is the essence of keeping money somewhere when you have to spend it on the health of the people.
“I put my integrity at stake that I will ensure that OHIS is established by law and has guiding principles. In as much as it is buying health for the people, of course, you cannot provide health service in the toilet. It has to be at the hospital.”
