Senator Bukola Saraki, a member of the Senate Committee on Finance on
Wednesday described as misleading, reports indicating that the
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Deziani Alison-Madueke and the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been cleared of
allegations of missing funds levelled against them by suspended Governor
of Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi.
In a statement issued
on Wednesday, Saraki noted that the committee is yet to conclude its
work as it is waiting to receive the forensic audit and independent
anaysis report from those it saddled with the task.
The Chairman
of the Finance Committee and former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed
Markarfi, had while presenting the report at plenary said the Committee
could not establish any missing money as alleged by the suspended
Governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
“The recent media
reports claiming that the Senate Committee on Finance has cleared NNPC
of any unaccounted revenue fund is not true.
“Though I could not
attend the last meeting of the committee, I have been very active in the
investigation. Nothing significant has changed to suggest clearing
anybody.
“I can say on behalf of the Committee that these media
reports bear no correlation to the content of the Senate Committee
report and I would urge the public to disregard it in its entirety.
“The
Committee is yet to receive the report on the forensic audit and
independent analysis on the subject clearly indicates we have a lot of
grounds to cover in order to determine the level of culpability or
otherwise of agency on the alleged non-committal, so to suggest any
clearance for anybody at this stage is out of the question.
“I
will further advise that the media should wait for the senate to release
the details of the Committee report to the public before they jump into
spurious conclusion,” Saraki stated.
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