The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have signed a multi-year partnership to strengthen accountability in the health sector.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, announced this on X on Sunday.
Pate stated that the pact focuses on monitoring, tracking, and auditing all expenditures related to the nationwide overhaul of health infrastructure across all local government areas.
The federal government is currently undertaking a large-scale project to rehabilitate and upgrade primary healthcare centres in Nigeria’s 774 local government areas.
The initiative forms part of broader reforms aimed at strengthening the health system, improving service delivery, and ensuring that public resources allocated to health infrastructure are used transparently and efficiently.
Under the arrangement, the ICPC will carry out real-time, stage-by-stage monitoring of revitalisation projects coordinated by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA).
“I am pleased to inform Nigerians that our ministry and its parastatals have entered into a multi-year pact with the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to monitor, track, and audit expenditures involved in the nationwide overhaul of health infrastructure across all local government areas.
“More specifically, the ICPC is mandated to report on the status of projects identified by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) as a prerequisite for final certification of project completion. In real time, the ICPC will provide stage-by-stage monitoring of primary healthcare revitalisation projects across all implementing states and local government areas to ensure value for money,” he said.
Recognising the importance of community-level oversight, he added that the ministry has deployed hundreds of Performance and Financial Management Officers (PFMOs) nationwide.
“This led to the recruitment and deployment of hundreds of PFMOs across all local government areas to continuously assess rehabilitation progress and operational performance in primary health centres.
“This initiative complements President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s commissioning of the National Health Fellows—774 young leaders from every local government area—selected through a rigorous process and prepared to sustain new anti-corruption procedures aligned with their technical and administrative responsibilities.
“This is our time to reclaim the nation we love, to reject what has held us back, and to affirm a new social contract grounded in integrity, renewed trust, and renewed hope,” the minister added.
