The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has summoned the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Ltd, Mele Kyari, to explain the payment of N1.93bn to contractors for charter services.
This was based on a 2019 audit query report by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation.
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At its investigative hearing over the weekend, the committee said the report showed that the defunct NNPC, now NNPC Limited, allegedly spent the funds on 17 charter services without payment vouchers and other supporting documents.
It also said there was no evidence of vessel trans-shipment of products, clearance certificates from inspection agencies to show that the payments were valid and charged against public funds.
The AuGF report said the NNPC had a weak internal control system that could have enabled illegal payments or payments for services not rendered.
The chairman of the committee, Wole Oke, directed that Kyari appears before the committee to provide the list of all the 17 contractors who benefited from the contract, their legal status and contract documents.
