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Home » Reps Summon NEPC MD Over Status Of $1.67bn Crude Oil Revenue

Reps Summon NEPC MD Over Status Of $1.67bn Crude Oil Revenue

by Joshua
June 6, 2023
in Featured, News

The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating alleged loss of crude oil revenue has summoned the Managing Director of Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) over unremitted 1.67 billion dollars.

The committee is investigating alleged loss of over $2 billion in revenue from illegal sale of 48 million barrel of crude oil export from 2015 including crude oil export from 2014.

Rep. Mark Gbilah, the Chairman of the ad hoc committee issued the summoned in Abuja on Monday in order to provide the House with clarification on the status of payment of outstanding debt to Nigeria, amounting to 1.67 billion dollars.

He said the invitation was in light of the several borrowings of money in spite of the huge sum yet to be paid into the Nigeria treasury which could have impacted on the Nigeria economy.

The committee also re invited the former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to know the status of the cases instituted with regards to those who had cases to answer on the alleged loss of crude oil.

He said the committee also had some submission of alleged discripancies in the document presented before it, adding that some of which had been sent to companies affected to respond.

“So clerk you do a letter to AGF to avail us detail of the approval for the engagement of the legal team and the related companies to carry out this investigation and provide us details of that legal team.

“In the letter, you request that the former AGF, former DG NIMASA also provide information on the status of this investigation and they will be invited in line with the submission of the report.”

He said the committee would also require that the AGF provides it with the details of the report of the investigation.

He added that part of the allegation was that a detail reports indicating several discripancies were provided to the federal government but no action was taken.

He further said it sounded like an attempt to shield those involved in the alleged pilfering of the country resources, while commending the court that got judgement in favour NEPC.

He said the judgement was in regards to the case against Atlantic energy, while also inviting Atlantic energy and Building concept for clarification.

On his part, the, Director General, Nigeria Maritime Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr Bashir Jsamo said  NIMASA mandate did not give it power to sell or transport crude oil

“But in 2013 when the revenue from the crude oil continue to dwindle we coordinated data of actual lifting of crude oil.

“NIMASA was directed by the AGF to ensure that it coordinated technical team to see how we can source data of the actual lifting of crude oil and the last destination point and see whether there is any discripancies.

” At the end of the day we saw such discripancies and we worked in conjunction with the legal team and from the findings the legal team discovered 10 companies liable.

He said the companies under-declared Nigeria crude oil and cases were Instituted against those companies, adding that most of the cases were still in court

“One of the case we won and a directive was given by the court that $1.7 billion should be paid to the covers of the Federal Government.

According to him, NIMASA and the AGF continued to monitor the progress of the team of lawyers and I have written to them requesting the update of such cases.

He said what it discovered was that even if NIMASA won the case, the affected companies would still go ahead to appeal “and we are still pursuing those cases.

He said some of the cases were not instituted in Nigeria but at the destination where such criminal act were committed.


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