The All Progressives Congress, APC has asked stakeholders to raise their voices against the proposed conversion of 115-year-old Central hospital in Benin City into an ‘ultra-modern Motor Park’ by the State government.

Recall that the Government had in a Press statement, said the Central Hospital was being relocated to the Stella Obasanjo Hospital, Benin City, expanded and improved to deliver quality health services and pave the way for remodelling of the facility.

But on Monday, the Assistant State Publicity Secretary of the party in Edo State, Victor Ofure Osehobo in a Press statement, labelled the move by the PDP government led by Governor Godwin Obaseki as weird, evil and unacceptable.

He alleged that “no right thinking government will prefer to replace a viable health facility, which it should equip and staff, to better cater for the well-being of the people, with a Motor Park”.

Osehobo also accused the government of lying to Edo people
in an attempt to legitimise the act when it said it was merely transforming rather than demolishing the hospital as most of its facilities were now obsolete and not supportive of modern-day medical service delivery, amidst public outcry.

“We labeled such thinking as weird and evil but also
unacceptable…No right thinking government will prefer to replace a viable health facility, which it should equip and staff, to better cater for the well-being of the people, with a Motor Park”, he said.

The APC demand an immediate and unconditional discontinuation of the plot to demolish the Central hospital, with a caution on the Government to withdrew forthwith “all MOUs or partnerships the Edo State government has entangled itself with, to warrant this sinister move”.

“As it is Governor Obaseki is bent on demolishing the same Central hospital. Yet his predecessor in office, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, some years ago, also saw the need to transform the Central Hospital, Benin City and undertook the task of remodeling and reconstructing a large segment of the Hospital and equipping it with world class facilities, during his tenure.

“The APC has it on good authority that the hospital has been stripped bare while bulldozers are already lined up for the demolition exercise.

“Our party (APC) will not allow this unpatriotic efforts of the government to continue because potentially it destroys the fortunes of generations of Edo children.

“We demand an immediate and unconditional discontinuation of the plot to demolish the Central Hospital.

“We want to place Governor Obaseki and his PDP government in particular on notice that the APC will hold them responsible for the extent of their complicity if they attempt to remain silent in the wake of this glaring and dubious attempt to shortchange the people of Edo by swindling them out of their legitimate inheritance”, according to the statement.

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