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CONFUSION OVER PROBE OF FORMER NNPCL GMD, KYARI
There is palpable confusion over the probe of Mele Kyari, the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
This comes amid the mixed reactions that have continued to trail the call for Kyari’s probe.
On its part, the Coalition of Civil Society Groups said the protests in London, United Kingdom, and Nigeria against the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, are sponsored by blackmailers and are needless.
Kyari and others were sacked by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration on April 2 over mounting concerns about their performance.
Last year, in November and December, Kyari announced the commencement of petroleum products production at Port Harcourt and Warri refineries.
However, the petrol production capacity of the resuscitated refineries remained under contention before the exit of Kyari.
The development had fueled calls for Kyari’s probe by several groups and civil societies in the last two months.
Barely five days after the ‘Kyari Must Go’ protest hit UK streets with a demand for his deportation,
Another group vowed to mobilise protests in the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates over Kyari’s probe.
Also, a group of 500 lawyers has joined in the demand for Kyari’s probe.
However, Igwe Ude Umanta, an activist and convener of the Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative and Coalition of Civil Society Groups, described the call for Kyari’s probe as needless.
In a statement on Sunday, Umanta said the protests are sponsored to put down Kyari and his reputation.
“It is now even visible to the blind that these shenanigans have nothing to do with any crusade against corruption, and some really corrupt interests are instead on a mission to blackmail Mallam Kyari, a plot we suspect he has vehemently, and rightly so, refused to be cajoled into. This has indeed become an exaggerated joke,” he stated.
Recall that the Nigerian Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, confirmed last month that a forensic audit will be conducted on Kyari’s regime in NNPCL.
Early this May, a report emerged that Kyari and others were detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the mismanagement of $2.9 billion in state-owned refineries.
Meanwhile, Kyari denied being in EFCC custody, clarifying that he led NNPCL with the fear of God.
