March 28, 2024

The claim by the Oyo State Government that it disbursed N118 Million to the University College Hospital (UCH) has led to a serious altercation as the premier medical institution insisted that it did not receive any money from the state government.

Officials of the Oyo State Government subsequently came out to explain that they didn’t actually give money to UCH, but that rather they gave medical equipments and assistance worth that amount to the institution.

That matter appeared to have died down, until Wednesday, July 1, 2020, when the spokesman for UCH, Mr Toye Akinrinola, was featured on a live interview programme anchored by Isaac Brown.

While answering questions, Mr Toye berated officials of the state government ‘for trying to play smart’, and their inability to differentiate between the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and the University College Hospital (UCH).

Things however, got more interesting when Governor Makinde‘s Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa called live into the programme to tackle the UCH PRO.

Mr Akinrinola of the UCH had earlie