A coalition of anti-corruption organisations, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to commence a full-scale investigation into the alleged diversion of international fund in Federal Ministry of Health. Briefing journalists in Lagos, , the chairman of Civil Society Network Against Corruption, Mr. Olarenwaju Suraju, said the Global Alliance For Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) had, in 2013, conducted an audit on cash grants allocated to Nigeria between 2011 and 2013. Suraju said after the audit of its programme and support to the federal and state governments with National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) as principal recipient, it discoverered that a whopping $2.2 million was fraudulently diverted.

He explained that despite the alleged mismanagement and diversion of the said fund, independent investigation conducted by the network in Borno, Adamawa, Gombe Bauchi among other Northern states was at variance with GAVI’s claims. According to the group, their investigation also showed that all contracts under the project were dully executed while provisions of the Nigerian financial regulations for the public service were duly Followed in the in the disbursement of duty. He said, “we found letters written by the New York office of UNICEF, a UN agency and an internationally reputed organisation, officially debunking claims in GAVI report as it concerns their transaction with NPHCDA under the contract.