The Space of Consultant member representing Brass-Nembe Federal Constituency, Marie Ebikake has given her place at the forensic investigation of the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Corporate Restricted by means of the Petroleum (Midstream/Downstream) Joint committee of the Space of Representatives.
She stated the directive quoted within the media in regards to the audit of the NNPCL was once now not the real place of the committee.
The Particular Joint Committee had on Wednesday directed the NNPCL to halt what it known as the loan of Nigeria’s time crude oil till it concludes its project.
Recall that the committee chaired by means of the lawmaker representing Ideato South/Ideato North Federal Constituency, Imo Surrounding, Ikenga Ugochinyere, commenced its probe of shady trade in within the sector endmost future.
The committee’s directive adopted stories that NNPCL is making plans to borrow an alternative $2bn in crude oil-backed loans from world collectors to spice up its monetary influx.
Alternatively, in a observation on Friday made to be had to PUNCH On-line, Ebikake dissociated herself from the directive given to the nationwide oil corporate.
The observation reads, “If the new newsletter credited to a few of our participants, which outrightly contradicts the location of the Petroleum (Midstream & Downstream) Joint Committee, with admire to the flow forensic investigation of the operations of the NNPCL is correct, later I’m at a loss to grasp the worth of categories 88 and 89 of the charter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, with relation to our duty as representatives of the nation.
“If certainly that press observation emanated from the purported workforce of fifty lawmakers, later this is a low gamble away that hurts none alternative than our honorable selves, just because it publicly expresses a section at the a very powerful factor of nationwide survival, and is an irreversible trauma to our collective credibility as representatives of the voters.
“For my part, even the parliamentary tradition alluded to, by means of the gang, will have to now not be invoked for the safety of the hobby of heads of parastatals, organizations and people businesses in opposition to the safety of the hobby of the voters which, I consider, is the hallowed duty of the nation’s parliament.
“Consequently, I wish to express my total dissociation from the decision of the group of 50, in the considered opinion that the position held by the joint committee led by Ugochinyere truly represents the collective interest of our constituents, and the goodwill of the President.”