Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has stated that the NNPC has nothing to hide and would cooperate with the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts’ request.
Kyari made the disclosure in response to a request by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts for the attendance of the heads of NNPC subsidiaries before lawmakers.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the NNPC boss stated in an Abuja statement that the firm will comply with the committee’s requirements while being accountable and transparent.
He said, “We have nothing to hide, Mr Chairman. We recognise that this company belongs to over 200 million Nigerians as its shareholders, thus we have been accountable and transparent and we will continue to remain so.
“No national oil company in the world is as transparent as we are. We shall comply with the House committee’s requirement.”
The committee had on March 16, through a letter signed by its Chairman, Oluwole Oke (PDP: Osun), summoned the 17 subsidiaries of NNPC to respond to audit queries by the Auditor-General for the Federation over the operations of their finances between 2014 and 2019.
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