The Minister of State for
Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC, Baru, were bared from answering questions
on subsidy yesterday.
The Chairman Senate committee on
Petroleum, Senator Kabir Marafa (APC, Zamfara) had asked Kachikwu and Baru not
to respond to questions raised by other lawmakers on whether subsidy was being
paid or not.
This happened during an
investigative hearing by the National Assembly on Friday.
Senator Bassy Albert Akpan (PDP,
Akwa Ibom) had raised the question, demanding to explanation from the the
Petroleum stakeholders on the N26 differential in the landing cost of N171 and
the N145 approved price.
However, the committee chairman,
cut in saying, “the essence of this meeting is not about whether there is
subsidy or not. I don’t want us to go into the issue.”
The same issue was also raised by
Senator Philip Aduda (PDP, FCT) when he demanded for explanation on it, he
says: “if we are paying subsidy let us know.”
Marafa quickly said that a new
date would be fixed for the hearing on subsidy.
During a press briefing ahead of
the investigative hearing, Marafa had told journalists that among the issues to
be discussed was subsidy.
Marafa had on Friday said, “Part
of what we are going to ask is the issue of subsidy: We were told that there is
subsidy, if there is, who approved it?
“We are the only one that can
appropriate money. If you do that without our approval, you have breached the
Constitution of the country.”
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