The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Petroleum, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has expressed concern over the failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to provide the Committee with adequate information on the rehabilitation, revival and operations of Nigeria’s state-owned refineries.
Ugochinyere who was speaking when He received Petroleum Engineering students from North Central Zone said the Committee had not received any briefing, documents or relevant information from the NNPCL concerning the state of its downstream operations, particularly the rehabilitation and revival of the refineries.
He disclosed that the Committee had not gotten any briefing from the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of NNPCL Bashir Bayo Ojulari and Executive Vice President (EVP) that would enable lawmakers to properly perform their oversight responsibilities. He said no substantive response or documentation had been provided.
“As a Committee, we have not gotten any briefing or information. In short, we wrote the NNPCL, both the GCEO and the EVP, and not even a single document or information has been provided to update us on how the state-owned oil company’s operations in the downstream sector, especially the refineries, are going,” he said
