An audit report prepared by the internal auditors of the Nigeria Medical Association has indicted the former chairman of the Association in Akwa Ibom State, Prof Emem Abraham
This is as senior officers in the medical prpfession in the state are desperately seeking to give her a soft landing.
The report sighted by our correspondent in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday revealed damaging financial infections against the chairman
Among the facts gleaned from the audit report includeu “Under-declaration of financial income from dues, non-declaration of some donations, lack of evidence of expenditure for monies received both by Dr Abraham and her excos on one hand and also monies received by her proxies in the guise of committee.
“Apart from the financial discrepancies, also highlighted by the auditors was the expenditure of nearly seven million to establish a Creche before deciding to seek the services of a consultant for feasibility studies”. The School declared an income of #35,000 prompting doctors in the State to question the economic sense and necessity of the expenditure. Others have alleged it the Creche was a conduit.
The report further stated that Dr Abraham spent over nine million of unbudgeted funds in spite of the maximum one hundred thousand naira allowed by the NMA Akwa Ibom laws to be spent as unbudgeted funds.
Furthermore the financial report presented by the Emem Abraham-led exco under-declared the dues from the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital as #17,730,978 instead of #20,602,999.99 while instead of #18,302,000 gotten from the Hospital Management Board, it declared #16,005,000 as income from that source. Going through the report, one will find similar discrepancies in the declared financial income from dues collected from Ibom Specialist Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital, Anua.
The auditors also found differences between the deposits made into the NMA endowment fund account as reported by the Financial report prepared by the exco and the actual deposits when compared with the bank statement
According to the audit report there was no evidence for the most cases to show that the activities for which the financial transactions were made took place as receipts were not presented to the auditors neither were those transactions properly retired”.
