Oil Theft: NGO Alleges NNPC Complicity

Non-Government
Organisation (NGO) under the aegis of Symbolical Love Foundation (SLF), has challenged the Nigerian National Petroleum Coporation (NNPC) to show open proof that it has nothing to do with the alleged sharp practices in crude oil sales with a Swiss-based agency.
The president of the group, Comrade Evans Ogbuiji, who spoke with newsmen at the week and in Port Harcourt, said NNPC, should convince Nigerians that its management was free in the illegal oil deal.
He said that the oil company as a federal agency should not learn the ways of sons foreign oil companies but should maintain a transparency in all its transaction.
Ogbuiji regretted that NNPC was about sweeping the matter under the carpet, instead of forming a judicial committee of inquiry into the matter to follow it to its logical conclusion.
According to him, cases of this nature are always taken seriously in United States of America (USA) were he was trained.
He pointed out that the matter will only cost the corporation (NNPC), peanuts, to get to its root, saying that it would be a determination of cowardice to shy away.
The public spirited man, also called on the Senate Committee Chairman (Petroleum Downstream), Senator Magnus Abe, to wade into the matter and save Nigerians from what he called international shame.
Furthermore, he called on other relevant  NGOs to push against the situation, saying that Nigeria must change for the better.
On the issue of the involvement of some local companies in the oil theft”, he said security agencies should as a matter of urgency wade in and unearth them.
It would be recalled that NNPC sometime last week was said to have been involved in an illegal oil deal with a Swiss-base agency and some local oil companies that led to several disappearance of crude oil in the nation.
Meanwhile, the company, has since denied the allegation through its Acting Group General Manager (Public Affairs), Ms Tumini Green, describing the publication as bogus, adding that it also contained inaccurate and poorly researched data, which she said defied common sense and verifiable evidence on the ground in Nigeria.