No fewer than 588 medical doctors across Nigeria have reportedly benefited from a fund mistakenly paid into their account by the Federal Government.
Mr Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, disclosed in Abuja while responding to questions from State House correspondents, Naija News reports.
According to the minister, names of beneficiaries of the wrongly paid fund were uncovered after a thorough “scrutinisation of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Directors of Federal Government health institutions for the training programme”.
Ngige lamented that while some doctors have willingly refunded the Medical Residency Training Fund meant for a particular category of doctors, others are still being pressured to follow suit.
He noted that the inability of the affected doctors to refund the money is why the government has held back the Residency Fund payment meant to be released to medical personnel.
