The National Chairman, Caretaker
Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said
he did not investigate a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani
Alison-Madueke in 2015.
Markafi was the Chairman Senate
Committee on Finance then.
Senator Makarfi spoke with
journalists in Kaduna on Saturday where he noted that his panel was saddled
with the responsibility of probing the financial records of the NNPC.
According to him, “We did not
investigate her (Diezani ). We investigated the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation and the proceeds of sale of crude that NNPC was supposed to have
remitted to the federation account and for the period of either 15 or 16
months.
“Our report made it clear that
there were several aspects under her ministry that we did not look into because
we were not mandated to do that like the issue of swaps, strategic alliances,
sale of oil blocks, investments and other issues.
“Still, within the area we investigated,
our report was clear that over N1bn was not accounted for even though some
agencies such as NPDC accepted that some hundreds of millions (naira) were in
their accounts waiting for reconciliation before they could be remitted.
“We were asked to follow up when
the senate approved that report, so we wrote series of letters to confirm
whether the remittances had been done, but maybe because we were leaving
office, our letters were ignored.
“The report is there. We never
cleared anybody. We were not asked to investigate her as a person but NNPC as
an institution. They owned up to everything, only that they could not account
for everything and our report showed that.”
He also spoke concerning a former
governor of Delta State, James Ibori, saying that since he had served his
sentence, he is free to join any political party and participate in politics.
He said, “The law prevents him
from holding public office for some time and if we apply the law, we should not
deny him his constitutional right to participate in politics.
“Participating in politics does
not mean occupying public office. Why are prisoners allowed to vote? It is
because they have the constitutional right. So an ex- convict has the right to
participate in anything the law allows.
“By 2019, when we take over, we
are not going to be vindictive but the truth will prevail
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U better go and set down and stop talking nonsense, as long as am concern, pdp is dead
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