The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya have jetted out to Saudi Arabia in a bid to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, SaharaReporters has gathered. This comes amid a probe of NNPCL by the lawmakers and corruption allegations against the duo.
A fresh crisis is brewing in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited over the alleged payment of gratuity running into billions of Naira to the Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and the Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya, SaharaReporters has learnt. Gratuity is a sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of employment. Kyari was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Group Managing Director (GMD), now known as the Group CEO of NNPC in 2019. He replaced Maikanti Baru.
Several high-ranking officials in the Nigerian Government have been invited by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Oil Theft in its investigation into the alleged loss of over $2.4 billion in revenue from the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil export in 2015. Finance minister Zainab Ahmed; and the Secretary General of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, were among the officials invited on Tuesday to answer questions, according to Channels Television.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited has agreed to the resolution of the House of Representatives to investigate the allegation of the payment of N20billion to “ghost consultants.” SaharaReporters had days ago exclusively reported how the Ogun State government dragged NNPC to court over unpaid tax liabilities running into N9 billion.