File photo: Former NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, for failing to appear before it over allegations involving N210 trillion in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2023.
The directive followed Kyari’s repeated absence from an investigative hearing probing queries raised by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation over the company’s financial records during the period under review.
However, former Chief Financial Officer of the NNPCL, Umar Isa, challenged the allegations before the committee, insisting that no funds were missing and describing the N210 trillion figure as misleading when compared with the company’s actual earnings during the period.
The arrest order was issued after lawmakers ruled against further delaying the investigation.
