People living with HIV/AIDS in the FCT have declared a two-day fasting and prayer and issued a one-week ultimatum to the FCT Administration until the Project Manager of FCT Agency for the Control of AIDS (FACA), Dr. Uche Okoro, is removed from office and replaced with someone who can feel their pulse.
Coordinator of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN), John Okene, who addressed journalists at the end of a meeting of coordinators of support groups of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kubwa, Abuja, alleged that Dr. Okoro was responsible for sending their members to their early graves due to lack of care and support.
He said members of his group whom, he said, will embark on mass protest at the end of the ultimatum, are also calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to, as a matter of urgency, investigate alleged misuse of funds from the World Bank to support HIV/AIDS intervention in the FCT.
Okene said PLWHA members are also demanding the constitution of a FACA management board with immediate effect with NEPWHAN FCT represented to take part in decision making as it affects implementation of HIV/AIDS projects in the FCT.
When contacted for comments, Dr Okoro said funding of NEPWHAN activities is a privilege and not a right which has been overused by members.
He said FCTA, in view of its limited resources, has decided to stop further sponsorship of NEPWHAN and some other NGOs operating in the FCT, a move, he said, that has since been communicated to NEPWHAN via a letter from the office of the Permanent Secretary dated June 13, 2014.
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