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Nine months after, senate probe yet to produce report on $25b NNPC contract scam

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Nine months after the Senate resolved to investigate alleged $25b contract scam in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), no positive step has so far been taken to provide details to anxious Nigerians.

After its inaugural meeting in October 2017, the committee soon buckled under pressure, allegedly mounted on it by the Presidency, and other interested parties, within and without the National Assembly.

Led by a former governor of Sokoto State and a staunch member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aliu Wamakko, the committee faced scathing criticisms after its chairman visited the Presidential Villa, only a few days after the body was inaugurated.

But neither Wamakko nor the Senate spokesman, Aliu Sabi Abdullahi, responded to questions on the matter after many attempts to reach them via phone calls and text messages by The Guardian.

The Guardian, June 3, 2018

 

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