Group petitions minister over alleged hospital CMD’s age falsification, others
28 January 2025 |
3:33 am
An anti-graft group, Advocates Against Corruption in Public Service in Nigeria, has demanded that the Acting Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, Dr. Theo Onyuku, be investigated over alleged falsification of age and employment records.
An anti-graft group, Advocates Against Corruption in Public Service in Nigeria, has demanded that the Acting Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, Dr. Theo Onyuku, be investigated over alleged falsification of age and employment records.
The group petitioned in a letter addressed to the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, through its legal adviser, Akiki Inam, of Compass Attorney.
According to the petition made available to newsmen, the group accused the CMD of not being a credible candidate for the position owing to his “questionable character” and dented records of service.
The group also probed the discrepancy between the year the acting CMD was employed in service and when he did his residency.
The petitioner, who quoted the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) number of the acting CMD, backing it up with his pay slip, further accused him of providing three different dates of birth in his employment record.
The petition partly reads: “Dr. Onyuku provided different dates of birth, June 20, 1965, June 20, 1967, and June 20, 1968, in his employment records at the Administrative/Human Resource Department of the hospital.
“As of September 1997 when he was first employed in the hospital as a resident doctor, he gave his date of birth as June 20, 1965, as the same was captured in his nominal roll of the hospital.
“In the record of service completed by him, he provided his date of birth as June 20, 1967, while he provided June 20, 1968, in his resume as found in his file in the hospital.
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