The Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, Adeola Olamilekan has given the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, 24 hours to appear before the committee.
Olamilekan who issued a similar directive to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), warned that failure to appear would be seen as undermining the legislature and sabotage.
Their presence is in line with a probe around a list of all individual companies operating with OML licenses in Nigeria as well as total production output approved daily.
Kyari had earlier shunned twice, summons by the Senate to appear before its committee probing over N11trn expenditure on turnaround maintenance of refineries in the country between 2010 and 2023.
The lawmaker expressed concerns that some of the revenues required to drive the 2024 budget was attributed to the NNPCL, which according to him, was owned by the Federal Government and responsible to it, and by extension the three arms of government.
