The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Thursday said it was false to claim that the oil firm exported 17.88 million barrels of crude oil without proper documentation
NNPC’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Garba-Deen
Muhammad, said the public should disregard the claims, as reported by a section
of the media.
In a series of tweets by the oil company and signed by
Muhammad, the firm said, “Our attention has been drawn to an online
publication, alleging that NNPC exported 17.877 million barrels of crude oil
without proper documentation in four years (2016 to 2020).
“The Auditor-General’s report in reference did mention 32
oil marketing companies involved in the non-completion of the NXP forms, but
that does not in any way mean that the proceeds from the sale of the said crude
were not repatriated into the coffers of NNPC and consequently into the
Federation Accounts for Federation related barrels.”
The company added, “It should also be noted that NNPC does
not appoint Inspection agents as alleged, but rather, it is the sole
responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
“Therefore, the general public is advised to disregard the
said malicious publication, and instead, visit the relevant Auditor-General’s
website to see the full content of the audit report, and be guided
accordingly.”