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Kyari urges EFCC to focus on crude oil theft, denies corruption allegations against NNPCL

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Last updated: March 12, 2024 8:39 pm
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…says many issues of corruption reported to public were either not true or recycled

… NNPCL cracks down on 6,409 illegal refineries, disconnects 4,846 pipes in Niger Delta

Oredola Adeola

 

Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has refuted numerous corruption allegations against the national oil company, describing it as either false or recycled from the past.

 

He urged the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to intensify efforts in targeting individuals involved in crude oil theft, which he claimed is the most colossal economic crime in Nigeria.

 

Olufemi Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer NNPC Ltd. made this known in a statement released on Monday and obtained by Advisors Reports.

 

According to him, Kyari made the appeal at an interactive session with Mr. Ola Olukoyede, EFCC Chairman, which was held at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on Monday.

 

He disclosed that the NNPC Ltd has made significant progress in the efforts to eradicate corruption from its system and stem crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism.

 

Kyari contended that going by the volume of oil stolen daily and the brazenness with which the perpetrators operate, crude oil theft was the most humongous and virulent economic crime in Nigeria that must attract the attention of the EFCC.

 

He said, “As we continue to do our best to deepen transparency and stamp out corruption from the system, there is one big challenge that you will need to help us with, Mr. Chairman.

 

“That challenge is crude theft. It fits into everything you have said—the people, the asset, the opportunity, and the absence of deterrence.

 

“We have deactivated 6,409 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region. Today, we have disconnected up to 4,846 illegal pipes connected to our pipelines, that is out of 5,543 such illegal connection points.

 

“That means there are a vast number of such connections that we have not removed.

 

“These things don’t just happen from the blues. They happen in communities and locations we all know. As we remove one illegal connection, another one comes up.

 

“This kind of thing does not happen anywhere else in the world. When we say illegal connections, they are not invisible things, they are big pipes that require some level of expertise to be installed.

 

“Some of them are of the same size as the trunk line itself. No one would produce crude oil knowing fully well that it is not going to get to the terminal. That is why nobody is putting money into the business. So, you can’t grow production.

 

“I believe, personally, that the very purpose of your commission is to curtail economic crimes, and there is no bigger economic crime of this scale anywhere else than what is happening in this area,” the GCEO lamented.

 

Speaking on the corruption within the system, Kyari explained that by law, NNPC Ltd. is required to maintain high ethical standards and has put in place structures and measures to curb discretionary actions which fuel corruption.

 

He also stressed that most processes in the company have been fully automated to discourage arbitrary actions.

 

Mr. Ola Olukoyede,  Executive Chairman of EFCC, in his presentation, expressed satisfaction with NNPC Ltd.’s commitment to issues of ethics and code of conduct.

 

He therefore challenged management to ensure that the codes of ethics and regulations are complemented with monitoring and enforcement to enhance deterrence.

 

 

 

 

 

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