Senate threatens to seek for sack, trial of senior officials of NNPCL

The Senate adhoc Committee constituted to investigate contracts for the rehabilitation of the nation’s four refineries has threathened to demand for dismissal and trial of senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, (NNPCL) its subsidiaries and other relevant agencies of government connected to the Turn Around Maintenance ( TAM) of the refineries.

Chairman of the Committee, Senator Isa Jibrin issued the threat on Wednesday following the failure of the senior executives of the NNPCL and other relevant agencies to appear before it.
Checks revealed that the Senate adhoc Committee had invited  the  chief executive officers of  the  Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and their subsidiaries.
The lawmaker who were apparently piquex by the failure of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari and others to appear before it asked their representatives to exit the Senate room.
Senator Jibrin said:” We can not start this investigative hearing without the heads of agencies. Let them go to report to their principals that we have declined to listen to them if they fail to turn up we know what to do.”

Senator Sumaila Kawu said the Senate was determined to get to the root of public fund spent on the moribund refineries.
He said:” We are working according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We are not in the Senate because of our names but because of the constitution. We are practicing constitutional representation and it is very clear.
“So much money has been spent on the turn around maintenance of the four  refineries. From 2012 till date over N12tr has been spent based on our records. We also have over $592m, 4.8m Euros and 3.4m pounds spent between 2010 till date on the Turn Around Maintenance yet none of this refineries is working. “More worrisome is the fact that between 2010 and 2020 the sum of N4.8tr was said to have been spent on operational expenses. How do you incure operational expenses with purchase of raw materials and others on facilities that are moribund, how you come about the operational expenses? “We need to know
Nigerians want to know. They want solutions to all these leakages. “