… IMPAC chairman wants anybody from the rank of manager sacked
….APC chieftain, Niyi Oyalowo wants NNPCL Probed
…PDP chieftain wants Mele Kyari investigated
As the cries for probing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Development Company Limited Gets louder, a social cultural group under the aegis of the Northern Action Groups has rejected the call by some individuals demanding the sack of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari.
The group attributed the increases in daily crude oil production to the effort of the NNPC Limited in combating oil theft and attacks on pipelines by some criminal elements.
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the spokesman for the group Abdulhameed Enaji, noted that the NNPCL has put strategic measures in place to ensure that the environment is safeguarded and preserved.
The group said as a result, the levels of pollution have drastically reduced which has made the environment safer for Nigerians.
However, Yabagi Sani, the National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has on several occasions during discussions on Channels Television advised the government of President Bola Tinubu to probe NNPCL for what he described as the monumental corruption that is going on in the organization
He alleged that people are intentionally destroying the refineries.
He asked, how is it possible for Dangote to build a refinery that would produce the entire capacity of the four government-owned refineries in the country and above.
Yabagi, a former staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stated that Dangote is building 650, 000 barrels per day refinery while the government has just 450,000 barrels capacity refineries.
He queried: “How is it possible for a single individual to build such a project and NNPCL that has a limitless amount of money and government facilities to ensure that things happen and they can’t fix one refinery?”
He said his statement that Nigerians are intentionally destroying the refineries is right because money is budgeted for turnaround maintenance (ATM ) and nothing is turned around except more money that is turning, He said NEITI reports are replete with the way the country is losing money to mismanagement and corruption and nobody is saying anything.
According to him, the president should be doing what he is doing now in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in NNPCL, stating further that the president should sack anybody from the rank of a manager in NNPCL because they have not delivered.
He alleged that NEITI said billions of dollars are being lost to recklessness and poor management of petroleum resources. He said these actions by NNPCL officials are deliberate and for personal gains.
Ayo Oyalowo, a chieftain of All Progressive Congress agreed with what the IMPAC chairman said stating that he believes that the people running the NNPCL should face the same music as the CBN.
Also, a member of the People Democratic Party (PDP), National Presidential Campaign Council, Adetokunbo Pearse, says Nigerians have a right to know the actual landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
Dr Pearse, speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday stated that a thorough scrutiny should be carried out on the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, over the fluctuation of landing cost.
“The way you solve a problem is to go to the source. Let the president go and interrogate NNPCL and let us find out – announce to the country what the landing cost is so that we know exactly what we can make, and how much we can sell oil that will not cripple the economy. That’s what we need to do,” he said.
He lamented that going back to the NNPC would affect the landing cost of imported fuel.
“When you go to the NNPCL, you find out that the landing cost is so low, the price that is given. The landing cost at one point was 50 naira per litre, now it’s about 150 per litre.”
According to the Lagos State Coordinator, Atiku/ Okowa Presidential Campaign Support Group, the emergence of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the repair of the local refineries ought to reduce the landing cost of the product in contrast to the NNPCL boss’ comment.
“One of the reasons I said we need to go to NNPCL is this: Kyari said on this Channels that even when Dangote oil comes fully on board, the price of pump fuel will not reduce – even with the production of oil in Port Harcourt and elsewhere. That man needs to be investigated.
“Of course, if you refine your oil here, the man is already telling us that even when it is refined here, it is still not going to go down and you and I know that if we have our own refineries and we are refining the product here, the price should be more competitive,” he argued.