The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, has chastised Nigerian politicians who, he claims, would rather spend N100 million on buying nomination forms for their political parties than on equipping health institutions.
Oloyede spoke at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in Ilorin on Friday during the presentation of medical equipment.
The event was part of JAMB's continuous distribution of medical equipment to 12 tertiary health institutions around the country, chosen from six zones.
The products were obtained through JAMB's Project Cure in the United States of America and are being distributed to the institutions as part of the "Tertiary Health Institutions Hospital Equipment Intervention Programme."
"Our politicians would rather spend N100 million on nomination forms for their various political parties than make donations to equip our health institutions," Oloyede remarked.
“If they had done that, our people would have been praising and praying for them, but now after losing out, who would pray for them?”
Explaining the motive behind the donation of the medical equipment to the tertiary health institutions, the JAMB registrar said, “The intervention of the board in the area of health care delivery is to support government’s efforts aimed at addressing the huge medical infrastructural gap.
“It is no gainsaying that the COVID-19 pandemic provided the much-needed impetus for countries around the globe to do the needful by breaking barriers and tapping into available opportunities.
“For us in Nigeria, the pandemic served as a wake-up call that opened our consciousness to the need for adequately equipped public health institutions to complement our highly acknowledged skilled force of medical personnel.
“It is in pursuit of this noble goal that JAMB, in its wisdom, decided to enter into a partnership with a grant agency in the United States of America to equip 12 tertiary health institutions in Nigeria.
“This is premised on our fervent belief that we could address the deficits in this particular sector of our nation if every segment of the society contributes its quota no matter how little to confront the lack in the critical areas of our society, such as health, food and education.”
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