Petroleum ministry: Officials who spent N116m on stationery have retired
January 06
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This is according to a statement released on Tuesday by Garba Deen Muhammad, spokesman for Timipre Sylva (pictured), minister of state for petroleum resources.
A 2015 audit report submitted by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AuGF) in December 2020 had said officials of the petroleum ministry
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The audit report is currently under scrutiny by the senate public accounts committee, led by Mathew Urhoghide, senator representing Edo south.
The statement explained that the infractions occurred before the present leadership of the ministry of petroleum.
“The general public should note that while it is true that the auditor-general raised audit observations on infractions committed by the ministry of petroleum resources, these infractions related to the 2015 accounts of the ministry of petroleum resources,” the statement read.
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Considerable excitement has attended the entry of the New Year 2021. Much of it comes from relief at the end of the horrible 2020. Eternal hope in the human heart is the other impulse as people wish and pray for a better year.
Caution is a dominant theme. Even the rambunctious seers couched their prognostications in loose and general terms to avoid the serial failure they suffered in 2020. The best that we can venture is to state that 2021 has potential to yield many successes for Nigeria and Nigerians.
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The anti corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari meant to sanitise all sectors of the economy doesn’t seem to apply to the petroleum ministry as the country’s 2020 Opaque Marginal Fields bid which is supposed to be overseen by both the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR and the ministry of petroleum, is being riddled with fraud, corruption, bribery. And this is despite a presidential approval.
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Nigeria’s hydrocarbon regulatory agency, started emailing letters to potential awardees of the country’s Marginal Fields Bid Round in the last week of 2020.
However, the agency is refusing to publish a list of these potential awardees. It is also refusing to send out all the letters at once, but instead, prefers to distribute the letters in batches. This has raised concerns about the transparency of the process and has also heightened the risk of assurance of investment inflows.
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, last week, commissioned the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC Integrated Gas Handling Facility in Ologbo, Edo State. The Liquefied Petroleum Gas plant that receives gas from the Oredo Field, estimated to be the largest onshore plant in Nigeria is to process wasted or flared gas to produce several Natural Gas Liquids, NGL to create wealth.
It is one of the projects embarked upon by the MeleKyari led NNPC, and executed by its subsidiary; the NPDC to scale up utilisation of Nigeria’s natural gas resources and put spurs on Nigeria’s industrialization. With this, the NNPC is moving towards a global integrated energy company.
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Lawyers have urged the Federal Government to investigate and prosecute Ministry of Petroleum Resources officials involved in contract splitting as disclosed by the Senate. This, they said, would serve as deterrent to others.
The Senate recently uncovered how the ministry, which is headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, spent N14 million for biros and N46 million for letterhead papers and raised the alarm.
Stakeholders in the oil and gas sector as well as transparency and accountability advocates are disturbed over how the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, directly overseen by President Muhammadu Buhari spent a whopping N116 million on biros, papers and inks in one year.