48 Million Barrels Crude Loss: NASS To Enact Whistle Blowers Policy
Afimag.com –
Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiyamila, has said that the legislature would give a legal back-up to whistle blowing by enacting Whistle-Blower policy whose Bill is currently before the chamber.
Gbajabiyamila spoke at an investigative hearing on the alleged loss of over $2.4 billion in revenue from illegal crude oil sales.
The hearing was organised by the House Ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the said revenue losses from the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, including all crude oil exports and sales by Nigeria from 2014 till date.
Mr Gbajabiyamila said the legislation, when passed into law, will address mirage of issues associated with the implementation of the policy as well as take adequate care of the whistle-Blowers involved.
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The Speaker, represented by the chairman house committee on ecological funds, Isyaka Ayokunle, described as “quite alarming” the dwindling revenue accruing to Nigeria from crude oil sales and whistleblower allegations that over $2.4 billion in possible revenue by the country was lost from the sale of 48 million barrels of Nigeria’s crude oil cargoes in China.”
The chairman of the Ad-hoc committee, Mark Gbilla, said the committee had summoned the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NEITI), oil and gas companies as well as the office of the Accountant General of the Federation to provide clarification on the allegations.
A federal commissioner, Code of Conduct Bureau Ehiozuwa James, complained about a similar investigation conducted by the house in 2016 which had yielded no “reasonable conclusion”. He urged the house to ensure a logical conclusion of the investigation.