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NHIS denies report of stolen funds by hackers, says it’s impossible
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on Sunday made attempts to calm frayed nerves over allegations that funds belonging to the organisation may have been stolen by hackers.
The scheme said it only operated the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA), and that its accounts could not have been breached by hackers.
Its Head of Media and Public Relations, Ayo Osinlu, stated this yesterday in a statement. It read in part:
“The discovery of fraud in the operations of one of the Health Maintenance Organisations (HMO), Clearline International Limited, leading to the arrest of two persons, one of whom is a staff of the HMO concerned, has come to the attention of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
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“The seriousness of this crime, the huge sum of money involved, and the reference to NHIS’ account being hacked in the process have compelled the scheme to make the following clarifications.
“That NHIS has no account anywhere else outside the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) in the custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“It is, therefore, not possible, or true, that the perpetrators of this heinous crime hacked into the account of NHIS in this act.
“That in the spirit of the scheme’s ongoing rebranding reforms, of which transparency and accountability is a major factor, a Management Committee has been constituted the day after the crime was reported, to ascertain the veracity of the allegations, the actual sum involved and the circumstances that facilitated the commission of the crime, among other terms of reference.”
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