Group to Tinubu: Probe Retirement Fraud at Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria

*…Petitions DSS, ICPC NMA

A group under the auspices of Medical Professionals has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “act very fast” by ordering investigation into alleged “scandalous age falsification case”  involving the Registrar of Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria – Dr. Tajudeen Adisa Bolanle Sanusi.

Chairman of the group, Dr. Yomilola Ogun raised the alarm in a media statement titled “Time to save our medical profession and respect for the Rule of Law: Why the President and Security  Agents Must Act Fast”.

The group said its independent investigation has confirmed that the current Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr Sanusi”has refused to vacate office almost a year after surpassing the statutory public service retirement age of 60 on September 19th, 2022″.

The group went on to say that “incontrovertible facts revealed that Dr.Tajudeen Sanusi was actually  born on 19th September 1962 and he attained 60 years in September 2022, but still performing official duties as Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, in flagrant disobedience of Rule 020411 of the Publi Service”.

The group  said further investigations have confirmed that Dr. Sanusi, who became Acting Registrar of the Council on December 16th, 2016, was confirmed and appointed substantive Registrar in February  2018 for four years, a tenure that expired in February 2022″.

The group expressed deep concern that “using his connections in the Federal Ministry of Health, a series of compromises in civil  service procedure led to his reappointment  for an additional 4 years that would last till February 2026, ” for which he would have been in office as Registrar for almost 10 years and attain the age of 64 years. At the moment, he has so far been in office for almost 7 years. “

The group called on the Department of State Service( DSS) to  “swing into action by gathering more intelligence of this scandalous age falsification and ensure that the rules of the civil service are respectfully adhered to, and we expect the NMA to step up efforts as well, on this matter.”

“We would like to assure Nigerians that this is a patriotic duty that we will never relent on, no matter whose ox is gored and we are confident  that the no nonsense President Tinubu and the highly proactive DSS and ICPC leadership  won’t  let this fraud get swept under the rug”, they said.

The group also insists that “all the salaries and allowances Dr. Sanusi has so far enjoyed under this questionable tenure of office be returned to national treasury immediately”.