{"id":359638,"date":"2025-06-20T22:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=359638"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:14:51","slug":"nnpc-audited-financials-is-the-senate-committees-claim-of-a-n210-trillion-discrepancy-true-separating-fact-from-conjecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/nnpc-audited-financials-is-the-senate-committees-claim-of-a-n210-trillion-discrepancy-true-separating-fact-from-conjecture\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC audited financials: Is Senate Committee&#8217;s claim of N210 trillion discrepancy true? \u2014 Separating fact from conjecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-21 ai-optimize-introduction\"><strong>The sheer scale of the grand larceny often dwarfs whatever malfeasance and criminality other groups of unscrupulous civil servants and avaricious vested interests in other areas of governance and sectors of the economy are perpetrating<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\">It will not be out of place to say no government agency, ministry or department has been dogged by corruption allegations like the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). The sheer scale of the grand larceny often dwarfs whatever malfeasance and criminality other groups of unscrupulous civil servants and avaricious vested interests in other areas of governance and sectors of the economy are perpetrating. Every leadership of the state-owned oil company has been enmeshed in a scandal or another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7\">On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts raised the alarm over discrepancies involving trillions of naira in the audited financial statements of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/06\/02\/nnpc-and-missing-n500-billion-who-will-clean-the-augean-stable\/\">Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited<\/a> (NNPCL), describing the revelations as mind-blowing and troubling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">At the investigative session on Wednesday, the committee claimed to have uncovered an absence of comprehensive and detailed records justifying massive legal and auditing fees, as well as disparities in receivables reportedly worth over N210 trillion between 2017 and 2023. The Chief Financial Officer, Dapo Segun, of NNPCL, appeared before the committee<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\">The panel said, \u201cLegal fees were accrued without any explanation or documentation regarding the legal services rendered. The auditors\u2019 fees raise similar questions. There are no clear justifications. Everything we\u2019ve seen and heard from the audited financial statements is troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\">Senator Wadada further stated that the main concern is with the receivables<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-6\">\u201cTrillions of naira are in question, and the new document they presented this afternoon doesn\u2019t match what\u2019s already in their audited report. It\u2019s completely independent and contradictory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\">The committee stated that the concerns emanated directly from the analysis of NNPC\u2019s audited financial statements spanning 2017 to 2023, not speculation. The committee gave a list of 11 queries to NNPC\u2019s finance team and gave them one week to return with answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\"><strong>Is there truly a discrepancy of N210 trillion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\">Let&#8217;s crunch the numbers and separate conjecture from fact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\">Senator Wadada claimed the accrued expenses for the NNPCL during the period under review are \u20a6103 trillion while the receivable was \u20a6107 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\"><strong>What do accrued expenses and receivables mean<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-16\">Accrued expenses are the amount NNPC owes, while receivable is the amount other entities owe the NNPC. In this case, NNPC owes \u20a6103 trillion, while other entities owe it \u20a6107 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-17\">The ideal thing for the senator to do is to subtract the payable (accrued expenses) from the receivable: \u20a6107 trillion minus \u20a6103 trillion equals a net receivable of \u20a64 trillion. Which is still a huge figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-18\">What the senator did was to sum the absolute values which is misleading in this case. You don&#8217;t add what you\u2019re owing and what you\u2019re being owed. You net off<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\"><strong>Verdict<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7\">The discrepancy in the NNPC audited financials is \u20a64 trillion and not N210 trillion, as Senator Wadada purported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-20\">Senator Wadada\u2019s statement showed a lack of basic accounting knowledge, which is not something you can castigate him for, as he is clearly not a trained accountant. But one need not have a background in accounting to avoid this kind of blunder, one just needs to ask the right questions and speak to experts before publicly stating one&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer scale of the grand larceny often dwarfs whatever malfeasance and criminality other groups of unscrupulous civil servants and avaricious vested interests in other areas of governance and sectors of the economy are perpetrating It will not be out of place to say no government agency, ministry or department has been dogged by corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":359639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1193,588],"class_list":["post-359638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-nnpc","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NNPC audited financials: Is Senate Committee&#039;s claim of N210 trillion discrepancy true? 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