Rivers State Contributory Health Protection Programme (RIVCHPP), in a desire to maximize whatever resources at its disposal, is engaging in training and retraining its staff and team members on ways to eliminate fraud, wastes, and abuse.
Declaring the training session open in Port Harcourt on Friday, 10th July, 2026, the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of RIVCHPP, Dr. Vetty Agala stated that the essence of the training is to infuse skills in the staff to curb abuse, fraud and wastes from every desk.
Dr. Agala said that there are ways that time, material, funds, and other resources can be managed to curb any form of fraud, wastes, and abuse, encouraging participants to put in their best attention to learn and relearn.
The Executive Secretary of RIVCHPP reiterated that the agency has pulled out resources to organise the training to ultimately make staff and team members more effectively efficient in managing resources to save so much in giving more Rivers residents opportunities for affordable healthcare services.
On his part, the facilitator at the programme and a board member of RIVCHPP, Dr. Mangibo Daniel said that organisations lost lots of resources through fraud, wastes, and abuse, describing the training as timely and relevant.
Dr. Mangibo reiterated that the training is designed to impart team members with skills of detecting fraud, wastes, and abuse so as to know how to block whatever leakages that may arise.
The training facilitator said that RIVCHPP, as a social health insurance agency, is designed to serve the health needs of Rivers residents, so every kobo saved from fraud, wastes, and abuse, will ultimately be ploughed back to give more residents the opportunity to benefit from RIVCHPP’s packages.
In a vote of thanks, on behalf of staff of the agency, Pharm. Bona Vopno, who thanked the leadership of the agency for the training opportunity, promising that team members would put into practice knowledge acquired from the training.
Idanye Oruigoni
Head, Information/Public Relations Unit,
RIVCHPP.
11th July, 2026.
