Senate President Bukola Saraki has called for the prosecution of those responsible for the fraud in the oil and gas sector.
Saraki made the call after the presentation of Waziri Adio, executive secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), on the agency’s 2013 audit report on the oil and gas sector.
In his presentation, Adio disclosed that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not remit $12.9bn to the federation account between 2005 and 2013.
He also made other claims.
Speaking after the presentation, Saraki assured the NEITI boss that the senate would take action on the recommendations in the report.
”I can assure you will discuss this report fully, and we will take action. We will task the executive to prosecute those who are culpable,” he said.
The senate president, thereafter, set up an ad hoc committee chaired by Jibrin Barau, a senator from Kano state, to look into the report.
He directed the committee to turn in its report within four weeks.
Wednesday’s action on the report is an effort by the senate to support the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari.