After Buhari’s 152 days in London, N3.2bn budget, Aisha gives an immediate speech about Aso Rock

The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has bemoaned the state of Aso Rock Clinic and wondered what would be happening in government owned hospitals across the states of the nation.

Lamenting that the clinic in the country’s seat of power is in such a sorry state that you cannot “find a single syringe” Aisha wondered “what happens across the states to governors wives if this will happen to me in Abuja.”
Mrs Buhari who called for a probe into the clinic’s finances also wondered how a N2.3 billion budgeted for the clinic was spent.

Her complaints are coming on the heels of her husband spending about 142 days on medical tourism to London where he went on two occasions for treatment.

She stated this in Abuja on Monday at a stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, Nutrition, Child Advocacy and Health and Nutrition, RMNCAH+N, at the State House.

Narrating how she recently fell ill and was asked to travel to London for treatment but she refused, President Buhari’s wife said, “I called the Aso Clinic to find out if they have an X-Ray machine. They said it’s not working. In the end, I had to go to a hospital owned and operated by foreigners 100 per cent

“There is a budget for the Hospital (Aso Rock Clinic) and if you go there now, you will see a number of constructions going on but they don’t have a single syringe there. What is the purpose of the buildings if there are no equipment there to work with?”

Lamenting she added, “You can imagine what happens across the states to governors wives if this will happen to me in Abuja.”                                                                                                Earlier, Buhari’s daughter, Zahra had also criticised the management of Aso Rock Clinic. In a post on her Instagram page, the daughter of the President had lambasted the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Jalal Arabi, for apparent failure to provide even Paracetamol tablets to the clinic not minding a budget of N3 billion for the provision of drugs to the hospital.

Recall that the management of the clinic had last week hinted that it was moving to commercialise the clinic to enable it operate efficiently.