N20bn payment to ghost Consultants’ allegation rocks NNPC

We Welcome House of Representatives Investigation, NNPC says in Statement to Platforms Africa

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has said that it was aware of the planned probe by the Parliament of allegation it paid N20 billion dollars payment to ghost consultants.

The NNPC Ltd, which said this in a statement to Platforms Africa, maintained that it “received with great relief, the resolution of the House of Representatives to investigate allegation of the payment of a huge sum of twenty billion naira to so-called “ghost consultants.”

NNPC Ltd, the statement by Garba Deen Muhammad, its spokesperson reads; “had earlier refuted this false and baseless allegation that was first published by an online platform without any iota of evidence.

“Under the current Board and Management, NNPC Ltd has instituted a culture of transparency that includes making its annual Audited Financial Statements (AFS) public.”

The statementsent to Platforms Africa reads further; “IIt is in this light that the NNPC Ltd welcomes the resolution of the House of Representatives to investigate this very outrageous allegation.

“NNPC Ltd is confident that the outcome of any investigation into the false allegation will vindicate the company, and put an end to all speculations concerning the matter.”