Senate Committee on petroleum
(downstream) has said heads of government agencies involved in petroleum
subsidy racketeering would roll if its investigations which began on Monday
indicts people.
Committee Chairman, Senator Kabir
Marafa stated this while addressing executives of agencies of government who
were being questioned over their roles in petroleum subsidy from 2006 till
date.
Marafa said, the claims by the
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that 70 million litres of PMS
were being consumed daily by Nigerians might not be true; hence, the move to
investigate activities of the sector.
“Distinguished colleagues, heads
of agencies, this investigation would touch all agencies of government who are
involved in petroleum downstream.”
“NNPC has said that Nigerians
consumes 70 million litres of fuel per day, and the issue is, why are we still
experiencing fuel scarcity?”
He believed that government was
paying for subsidy that did not exist, adding that the Senate was not
comfortable with the submission by NNPC GMD, that NNPC was being owed
N1.7billion subsidy.
Asked to submit all he knew about
subsidy, Deputy Director (downstream) in the Department of Petroleum Resources,
Alhaji Usman Ndanusa said, DPR does not have anything to do with subsidy.
“Distinguished Chairman, we have
different responsibilities from subsidy payment, so we don’t have anything to
do with subsidy at all”, he maintained.
However, the Executive Secretary
of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, Abdulkadir Saidu explained
that subsidy was a responsibility of PPPRA. He added that the agency assess
petroleum consumption every quarter before advising government to that effect.
He noted further that all subsidy
claims were approved by PPPRA before payments were made by the NNPC.
Marafa further revealed that the
committee was working with foreign agencies involved in downstream to
established actual litres of imported fuel into the country.
He charged those agencies to make
available all documents that would help the committee conclude its
investigations.
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Which head will roll,we are not carried away any longer with empty threat! How many head had roll over the mainagate and ikoyigate.All those ripping this country of his resources will never have peace ! Many life are destroy because of their greediness and mismanagement.
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