A group, the Niger Delta Youths and Stakeholders Congress, NDYSC, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to probe and prosecute top officials in the upstream sector of the National Petroleum Corporation of Nigeria in order to check illegal oil bunkering.activities
The group said that the country would continue to be disadvantaged from the activities of top NNPC officials occupying sensitive positions, noting that they are behind oil theft, hence they should be “probed, arrested and prosecuted.”
NDYSC in a statement signed by the Secretary of the body, Comr Engr Davies Iyieke, said it has followed up developments in the major subsidiaries of the NNPC up to the London & Dubai offices, and has evidence that would help expose huge frauds in the company.
It noted that one of the officials at the NNPC “sponsors illegal refining, crude oil theft, pipeline vandalism and other wholesome activities bordering on economic sabotage.”
The group added: “We therefore call on President Asuwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to sack and probe all the heads of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited in the interest of the nation.
“A forensic audits should be carried out on their activities , particularly as it has to do with the obnoxious Direct Sale Direct Purchase Policy, DSDP.
“Since they sell our crude to foreign refineries and also purchase refined products back directly without the marketers having access to subsidy money, the question Nigerians should ask is who is holding the subsidy money since these years?
“We also believe that the lofty idea of revamping the nation’s refineries has been frustrated from coming to fruition because of those swindling the economy through fraudulent subsidy.
“We thank president Tinubu for the end of subsidy in the country and urge him to go ahead and revamp the refineries to work with the new Dangote Refineries in the interest of the country.”