Nigeria: Suspended Yobe PHC boss admits stealing food supplement for malnourished children, begs for mercy — Africa Links 24

Ibrahim Lawan, Director of Primary Health Care, PHC, in Nangere Local Government of Yobe, currently on suspension for diverting Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, RUTF, has confessed to committing the crime.

The state’s PHC Board had suspended Lawal for “diverting and misusing” the food supplements.

Adamu Abba, the board’s spokesman, who announced the suspension on Wednesday in Damatutu, said that a five-member committee had been set up to investigate the matter.

Mr Abba, while…