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February 01, 2024, 07:10:44 AM |
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Greetings great family and happy New Month.
I want to share my personal experience with you guys on what happened to me at the Federal Ministry of Health yesterday.
I needed a vaccin for Yellow Fever, so i went to Federal Secretariat in Yenagoa.
When i got there i met two young men in the office. So i started to tell them my intention of visiting their office.
They asked me to go online then login to the yellow fever portal and make payment of 2k either remita or bank payment.
So quickly logged in to the portal which i read through the terms and condition of the process.
On the portal it is stated clearly that you have to make payment of 2k then print out your payment receipt and take it to any nearest vaccination point for your vaccin and the card. So i made payment through remita and printed out my receipt.
Only for me to submit my receipt and those guys told me that i will now pay 20k for the card that will be ready in the next 10 working days. But if i need the card today i should pay 25k. With the voice of frustration i didnt know when i exclaimed "Oh Nigeria our Beloved country is finished" I tried to tell this young men that look, ive gone through your portal and the only money they asked me to pay is 2k which i have presented my receipt to you. But they told me that has been their practice.
I tried to convince them how we the young generation need to act differently from our old politicians, but they never heed to my clarion call against unpatriotic and unlawful deduction of money from helpless poor masses.
At this point because i needed the vaccin urgently so i agreed to pay the 25k because it was obvious those guys are not ready to shift ground. But i wanted to an evidence of the illegal extortion so i requested that they should give me the account details of the Fed. Min of Health to make my payment. They refused to give me the account. Instead one of them gave me his personal account which i paid the money.
It was a frustrating experience. But then i was asking myself, who should i report this injustice to?
If you were in my shoes what would you have done?
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