Some officials of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) involved in the theft of 130 million litres of fuel should face probe, the Senate has said.
Senate spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi in a statement last week, commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for acting on a motion raised on the floor of the Senate on the theft.
Senate however called on the corporation to take more radical measures to avoid recurrence.
The Senate advised the NNPC to go beyond sacking and redeployment of a few officials but initiate a comprehensive restructuring of its operations, which presently allow officials and other firms to appropriate national resources for personal use.
"The Senate is appalled that NNPC is not contemplating on doing something about the involvement of officials of the PPMC, which actually played key roles in the missing products.
"It is instructive that NNPC did not do anything on the case until the matter was raised on the floor of the Senate and the press picked the matter up from the motion. The unauthorized sale of 132 million litres of fuel kept in the storage tanks of MRS and Capital Oil designated as strategic reserves is a grave occurrence.
"This probably is not the first time it is happening and NNPC must review its operations. It should in fact carry out a shake up in the PPMC", Abdullahi stated.
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