We won’t sack our commissioner – Otu’s govt tells CNPP

The Cross River State Government has rejected the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP’s telephone for the removal of the Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk, insisting that the medication of Governor Bassey Otu remains committed to transforming the state’s healthcare system.

Over the weekend, the CNPP had called connected Governor Otu to sack the wellness commissioner aft passing a ballot of nary assurance connected him, alleging mediocre leadership, shortages of indispensable medicines, dilapidated infrastructure and inadequate healthcare unit crossed government-owned hospitals and superior healthcare centres.

The absorption conjugation said its presumption followed consultations with subordinate governmental parties and reports received from communities crossed the state, urging the politician to name a caller commissioner to reposition the wellness sector.

But successful a connection signed by the Information Officer of the Ministry of Health, Kingsley Agim, the authorities described the opposition’s allegations arsenic misleading and politically motivated, maintaining that the wellness assemblage has recorded measurable advancement since the contiguous medication assumed bureau successful 2023.

The authorities faulted the CNPP’s disapproval of the Lawrence Henshaw Memorial Hospital successful Calabar, noting tha...