Kano probes diversion, sale of malnutrition treatment products

Following alleged diversion, theft, and unauthorized income of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) meant for the attraction of malnourished children crossed the state, the Kano State Government has commenced an probe to prosecute those down the transgression acts.

A high-powered committee to analyse the alleged crimes has already been inaugurated.

Inaugurating the committee connected behalf of the Executive Governor of Kano State, His Excellency Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, said the committee was constituted to uncover the facts surrounding the reported diversion of the life-saving nutritional commodities and guarantee that each those recovered culpable are brought to justice.

Dr. Yusuf explained that the committee has been mandated to analyse the alleged diversion of RUTF, found the circumstances surrounding the incident, place liable individuals oregon groups, including imaginable collaborators among wellness workers, backstage traders, and assemblage members, arsenic good arsenic find the quantity and estimated worth of the missing products.

The commissioner fur...