Reps call for forensic audit of N28trn NNPCL assets, accounts

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

House of Representatives, yesterday, called for a forensic audit of all assets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) estimated to be  worth about N28 trillion as well as all accounts operated by the company.

This is as the ninth House would formally wind up today with a valedictory session to be attended by former presiding officers of the Green Chamber.

The valedictory session, which will feature presentation of certificates to members, is expected to be attended by  past Clerks of the National Assembly, who would also give goodwill messages.

In its last plenary, the House considered and adopted the report of its Ad-hoc committee that probed the total “assets, interest and liabilities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries’.

The House, after the consideration and adoption of the panel report, called for  a forensic audit of all NNPCL accounts in all the bank to ascertain the true states of the accounts.

“Information available to us suggest that some subsidiaries of NNPC, with location in foreign countries, buy crude oil and gas from NNPC without evidence of their payments for the purchases. These companies are indicted to be operating without employees and no fixed assets; yet over 30 billion is traceable to some of them.”