The Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Mele Kyari, the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), over his failure to appear before the panel investigating an alleged ₦210 trillion discrepancy in the company’s accounts between 2017 and 2023.
The committee’s decision followed Kyari’s absence at a scheduled investigative hearing on audit queries raised by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation concerning NNPCL’s financial records during the period under review.
However, Umar Ajiya Isa, the former Chief Financial Officer of NNPCL, dismissed claims that ₦210 trillion was unaccounted for, describing the allegation as impossible and misleading.
According to him, the amount being cited as missing far exceeds the company’s total revenue of about ₦54.5 trillion during the same period.
During the hearing, some lawmakers appealed for leniency, citing reports that Kyari was receiving medical treatment in
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