Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been directed to appear before the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the Refined Product Exchange Agreement/Crude Oil Swap between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/Petroleum Pipelines Marketing Companies (NNPC/PPMC) and some oil companies during her tenure.
The lawmakers want Diezani to explain her role in the award of contracts worth about $24 billion without valid agreements signed with the befitting organisations.
Diezani was alleged to have extended the contracts of Duke Oil Company Incorporated and Trafigura B.V without valid agreements in December 2014 after their initial deals had expired in October 2011 and backdated to cover the period from when they earlier expired.
Three former Group Managing Directors, GMDs of the NNPC, Austin Oniwon; Andrew Yakubu and Joseph Dawha, who appeared before the committee last week, claimed the former minister was behind the act.
Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, told ThisDay in a telephone interview that, “The former oil minister’s invitation will definitely go to her tomorrow (Monday). We are going to invite her, because contracts expired for 20 months, there was no renewal of contract, but the GMDs wrote to her, and she, on her own, approved the contracts.”
However, Diezani’s international passport is reportedly seized by the United Kingdom’s authorities after she was allegedly arrested in 2015.
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