INVESTIGATION: Millions Meant For Combating HIV/AIDS In Nigeria End Up In Private Pockets
NACA's logo, erected at its office in Abuja The companies’ address at 169 Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja was a residential apartment now being converted to a plaza John Idoko, former Director General of NACA between 2009 and 2016 Office building of Benue State Agency for the Control of AIDS in Makurdi NACA's logo, erected at its office in Abuja The ICIR Hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing services may have ended in private pockets of contractors and government officials, as companies were specifically registered to siphon funds meant to save the lives of the infected. Brazenly stolen money In October of 2015, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) awarded 38 contracts to 23 firms at the cost of N1.2 billion. Their shared responsibilities were to conduct HIV counselling, testing and demand creation for HIV services in 26 out of Nigeria’s 36 states. That year, NACA broke its own fiscal record as its capital budge...
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