MPs want funds saved from budget cuts ring-fenced for the construction of a national health facility for the management and treatment of infectious diseases such as Covid-19. The National Assembly targets a 1000-bed capacity hospital in the review of the current financial year spending by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Lawmakers also want funds deducted from the Legislature, Judiciary, and Executive budgets used for the purchase of medical supplies used responding to the pandemic. The others are the Public Order (State Curfew) Order, 2020, Public Health Act - Declaration of Notifiable Disease and the Public Health (Declaration of Formidable Disease) Order, 2020. The CS nominated the acting CEO Yusuf Mbuno to the post after MPs rejected his initial choice of Mohammed Abdille.

Source: The Star April 14, 2020 12:22 UTC