Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Senate Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday berated the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for paying N443bn without the National Assembly’s appropriation. The chairman of the committee, Senator Mathew Urhoghide, has summoned the management of the NNPC to explain the expenditure it made without budgetary provision. The committee took the decision based on the 2016 report of the Auditor-General for the Federation, which is currently being scrutinised. The AuGF query to the NNPC read, “During the examination of subsidy records provided by the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee, it was observed that the total subsidy paid during the year 2016 was N443,940,559,974.80.