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is at loggerheads with either the LGA chairman or
the state government as shown in the box.
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs
In spite of 100% completion rate of the FMoWA‘s
projects, reports from some states indicated they
were yet to receive their ambulances meant to be
delivered to the cluster general hospitals despite
the fact that the State First Ladies had witnessed
their formal launch and presentation by the
FMoWA. The ambulances are supposed to be
utilised to evacuate emergency obstetric cases
from the MSS PHCs to the cluster GHs. Fuelling
and maintaining the ambulances were two major
issues that hindered the effective use of these
ambulances in most locations.
In one particularly unfortunate instance, the
Executive Chairman of an LCDA in Alimosho LGA
(Lagos State) exchanged fiery words with the site
facilitator, a staff of the NASS sponsor regarding
the location of the project when he discovered
during our field visit that the approved location of
the project had been changed by the project
facilitator, without his knowledge.
“ ...I have nothing to do with that project, and I
have vowed never to visit the project location, nor
deploy any staff to the place when
completed...but [because of] the manner [in which
] you talked to me now, I will lead you to the
project site right now...” Executive Chairman,
Pastor (Mr) Kenny Okunmuyide (08033436466),
Agbado-OkeOdo LCDA, Alimosho LGA....during
M&E team entry visit to the council secretariat.
“... What you said will not be successful! You will
live and see the success of this project! We will
do it, and there is nothing you can do about it!”
Site Facilitator, Mrs. AjokeYinusa (08023120966),
Computer Centre at Model College, Meiran,
AgabadoOke-Odo LCDA, Alimosho LGA,
exchanging words with Executive Chairman of
AgabadoOke-Odo LCDA, during the M&E team
visit to the Project site in company of the
chairman.
Lagos State SMET Report
Federal Ministry of Health
NHIS and NPHCDA: These are MDAs that are
under the FMOH but are self-accounting. Getting
details of their projects from them was not
difficult. They appear to have also made the
greatest contributions to the achievements of
health-related goals.
Inspite of this, the following observations are
worthy of note:
The rate of completion of the PHCs under the
NPHCDA was only 26.7%, in comparison to
its other projects that were virtually all
completed. With slow completion rate of the
PHCs, drugs and equipment supplies to these
PHCs suffer as in most cases, the equipment
had to be taken somewhere else for
safekeeping, and the drugs had to be taken to a
nearby health facility to be utilised. With
these challenges, NMET is optimistic of
recommending CGS modus operandi as a way
out in handling the PHC construction, since
even when completed; the PHCs would have
to be handed over to the states and LGAs who
would provide staff to run them. The
NPHCDA would then be left to handle its core
competence, which they do so well;
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