The House of Representatives has urged President Bola Tinubu to allocate financial savings from fuel subsidy removing to enrol Nigerians in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
This decision was a sequel to a movement moved by Bashiru Dawodu, a lawmaker from Lagos State.
Moving his movement, Dawodu mentioned the medical health insurance scheme below the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is but to cowl susceptible Nigerians as solely 5 million have been enrolled below the scheme.
He acknowledged that N50 billion may enrol 5 million Nigerians into the scheme, therefore, the federal government ought to allocate financial savings from the subsidy removing.
It can be recalled that President Tinubu had on May 29 eliminated fuel subsidy and promised to allocate the financial savings into healthcare, schooling, infrastructure and different investments.
The lawmaker mentioned the financial savings from the subsidy removing would assist in registering susceptible Nigerians into the scheme.
βIn 2022, NNPC spent N4 Trillion ($9.7B) on fuel subsidy and N3.6 Trillion in 6 months of 2023.
βIt costs about N5 Billion to cover 5 Million persons annually at the rate of NI 5,000 per person,β he mentioned.
The movement was taken with out debate and ordered the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to guarantee implementation and monitoring.
