The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has emphasised the need for the? Federal Government to restructure the nation’s petroleum industry for better service delivery.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary of the party, Mr Emma Eneukwu, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
“ ANPP received with deep concern the widely reported news about a leaked report of the Nuhu Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenues Task Force, which says Nigeria lost about N4.64 trillion to corrupt officials
“ The task force which is to determine and verify petroleum revenues, find out that NNPC gets an allocation of 445,000bpd of crude oil to refine locally but it has not been utilised,” it said,
It regretted that the Presidency had not done enough over these revelations.
“ We wish to ask whether the Leadership newspaper report of a forged Export Clearance Permit of more than one and a half billion dollar is also suspicious.
“Or the letter written by the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr Olusegun Aganga to President Good luck Jonathan, promising to investigate the source of the discovered fake document in his Ministry,” it said.
The statement said that Nigerians were apprehensive if 24 million barrels of crude oil could afford to leave the shores of this nation under suspicious circumstances.
The party, however, urged the Federal Government to rise up to its responsibilities instead of allowing this glaring disclosure to be“ swept under the carpet”.
It urged the National Assembly to look into this report in order to ascertain the true situation of things.
It also called on the Federal Government to ensure that the committee set up to look into the Ribadu committee’s report did not cover up vital facts which would assist to tackle corruption.
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