NNPC, others fail to remit $22.06bn, N481.75bn to Federation Account –NEITI

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and some companies in the oil and gas sector of the country have failed to remit a total revenue of $22.06 billion and N481.75 billion to the Federation Account.

This is contained in the latest report by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Monday.

The report, which summarises unremitted revenue, losses and unreconciled differences from operations and transactions in the oil and gas sector, indicates that only NNPC defaulted to the tune of $19.04 billion and N424.57 billion.

It further shows that oil and gas producing companies were still withholding $152.69 million and N5.2 billion; companies involved in offshore processing contracts, $498.6 million; and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), $2.38 billion and N51.95 billion.

The report puts the total losses to the federation from crude oil production, processing and transportation at $3.04 billion and N60.99 billion, while unreconciled differences from the allocation, sale and remittance of proceeds from domestic crude allocated to NNPC was put at N317.48 billion.

In July, Ripples Nigeria reports that NNPC failed to remit a total of N198 billion to the Federation Account in 2016, an amount which brought the total under remittance of revenue from domestic crude oil sales by the corporation to over N4 trillion in the year.

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“It was observed from the examination of NNPC report to Technical Sub- Committee of Federation Account Allocation Committee meeting held in December 2016 that accumulative total of N4,076,548,336,749.75 remained unremitted to the Federation Account by NNPC as at 31st December 2016.

“The total revenue unremitted as at 1st January 2016 from amounts payable into the Federation Account by NNPC was₦3,878,955,039,855.73. The sum of N1,198,138,355,860.30 was due in revenue to the Federation Account out of the total generated in 2016, however, NNPC paid the sum of N1,000,545,058,966.20 resulting in an amount withheld of N197,593,296,894.02.

“This brought the total amount withheld by NNPC from the Federation Account as at 31 December 2016 to N4,076,548,336,749.75,” the Auditor-General of the Federation, Anthony Ayine, stated in his 2016 annual report.

 

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