The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Hajiya Zainab
Shamsuna-Ahmed, on Wednesday said between 2009 and 2012, about 160
million barrels of oil valued at $13.7bn was stolen under the watch of
the national oil giant, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
She also said that subsidy payment from
2005 to 2012 indicated that $11.63bn had been paid to the NNPC but that
“there is no evidence of the money being remitted to the federation
account.”
The NEITI boss, who called on the
Federal Government to privatize the refineries, stated this during a
courtesy call on Governor Nasir el-Rufai, at Sir Kashim Ibrahim
Government House, Kaduna, on Wednesday.
El-Rufai
is among the four governors appointed by the National Economic Council
to scrutinise the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation and the Excess Crude Account managed by the administration
of Goodluck Jonathan.
Part of the terms of reference was to
unravel the N3.8trn not remitted to the Federation Account by the
national oil giant between 2012 and May 2015, as well as $2.1bn said to
have been deducted from the Excess Crude Account.
Governors of Akwa-Ibom, Edo and Gombe states were members of the team.
Hajiya Ahmed said, “Crude product swap
of $866m was lost from 2009 to 2011 and $8243m in 2012. Total amount
expended in subsidy payment from 2005 to 2012 as captured $11.63bn have
been paid to the NNPC. However, there is no evidence that these amounts
were remitted to the Federation Account,” she stated.
Meanwhile, Governor El-Rufai disclosed
that since he called for the scrap of the NNPC, the corporation has been
sponsoring articles in the media to attack him to fight on till NNPC
will be killed.
He added that the corporation would be made to pay all monies it owed before its final death.
El-Rufai said, “NNPC has become a
monster that is too powerful. I will continue to fight NNPC till it dies
for Nigeria to survive.
“It is either Nigerians kill NNPC or NNPC will kill Nigeria.
“Since, I called for the death of NNPC,
the corporation has sponsored articles attacking me, but I am telling
them my skin is thicker than an elephant.”
PUNCH