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Reason Why Senate ‘Wants To Sack’ NNPCL GMD

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Mele Kyari

Reason Why Senate ‘Wants To Sack’ NNPCL GMD

Mele Kyari

The Senate has instructed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and its subsidiaries to provide relevant documents related to the turnaround maintenance projects of Nigerian refineries.

The Senate highlighted that over N12 trillion has been expended on these projects from 2010 to the present, with additional records indicating expenditures of over $592 million, €4.8 million, and £3.4 million during the same period.

Despite these significant financial allocations, none of the refineries are reported to be operational.

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The directive was issued by the Senate ad hoc committee during an interactive session with NNPCL management and other executives from the oil sector. Some agency heads, summoned for the session, were represented due to their inability to attend in person.

Senator Isa Jibrin, the chairman of the ad hoc committee, highlighted that extensive information has been gathered regarding the turnaround maintenance projects, and substantial funds have been allocated for operational materials for the refineries, which, despite these investments, remain non-operational.

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The committee aims to understand the solutions to address the various challenges and leakages in the management of these projects.

“We will ask for refund and dismissal of all the chief executives involved in the turnaround maintenance,” the lawmaker said.

Jibrin said that for weeks, they had been asking for documents, which had not been given by the oil companies, a development that created suspicion.

“We sent them an invitation more than two weeks ago requesting documents and the documents have not been released after two weeks. So, we want the chief executives to be present.

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“More worrisome is between 2010 and 2020, the sum of N4.8tn was said to have been spent as operational expenses. How do you incur operational expenses that have to do with the purchase of raw materials and similar expenses on factories that are moribund? How do we come about operational expenses? We need to know.

“These are issues that Nigerians want to know; they want solutions to all these leakages. We know they are leakages. We know and we will not hesitate to escalate it to the highest possible level, including the possibility of refund and outright dismissal of some of the heads of some of these agencies and possibly go to jail,” he said.

Also speaking, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi said that the NNPCL and management of other agencies, who came to represent their bosses, should be sent back to tell their chief executives that they should appear in person.

Angered by the whole development, Senator Sumaila Kawu said that the invitees knew the modus operandi of the civil service, adding, “We are not in the Senate for personal functions. We are representing the entire legislature. You are in the civil service, we know how you are operating.

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“We are in a very serious business. In the end, you will be at the receiving end. Nigerians are not satisfied with what you are doing and you will be at the receiving end.”

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