By Adewole Kehinde
My attention was called this morning to reports that Senate Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday berated the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for paying N443bn without the National Assembly’s appropriation.
After reading the news, I laughed in the sense that since Mal Mele Kyari took over the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, he has been publishing the monthly report of the Corporation to date.
Moreover, the committee took the decision based on the 2016 report of the Auditor-General for the Federation, which is currently being scrutinised.
Mallam Mele Kyari took over from Dr. Baru on July 8, 2019 as Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, meaning the infraction didn’t take place under him.
In fact, due to such infraction, On July 24, 2019, Mele Kyari unveils Transparency, Accountability and Performance Excellence (TAPE) initiative to drive performance in NNPC
Mele Kyari had explained that while the Transparency component of the agenda was aimed at maintaining positive image, share values of integrity and transparency to all stakeholders, the Accountability leg of the campaign would assure compliance with business ethics, policies, regulations and accountability to all stakeholders.
In terms of the two-prong item of Performance Excellence, Mele Kyari said the idea was to entrench a high level of efficiency anchored on efficient implementation of business processes which would also emplace an appropriate reward system for exceptional performance among the workforce.
It is on record that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation made history under Mele Kyari with the publication of its first audited financial statements after 43 years of its operation.
Mele Kyari has sustained the “NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR)” since he resumed office to date and this can been accessed via the NNPC website aside all the online media across the country.
It will be recalled that Auditor General of the Federation queried the NNPC and it read, “During the examination of subsidy records provided by the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee, it was observed that the total subsidy paid during the year 2016 was N443,940,559,974.80.
“They included the 2014 arrears paid to oil marketers in 2015 and the payments made in 2016 without interest is N403,321,449,046.76.
Adewole Kehinde is the Publisher of Swift Reporters and can be reached via 08166240846, 08123608662
