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Subsidy regime under NNPCL under probe

Subsidy

The Matters Press by The Matters Press
July 12, 2023
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Abuja, July 12, 2023: The Senate on Tuesday constituted an ad hoc committee to investigate the fuel subsidy regime of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

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This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Patrick Chinwuba (APC-Imo) during plenary on Tuesday.

The motion was tagged “Need to Investigate the Controversial Huge Expenditure on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) under the Subsidy/Under Recovery Regime by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).”

Moving the motion, Chinwuba said that the Federal Government on May 11, 2016 announced increase in fuel pump price from N87 to between N135 and N145 per litre.

“This was in its fight against corruption and in order to plug the presumed highly proliferated leakages, wastages and slippages surrounding the fuel subsidy as well as in an attempt to end the controversial subsidy regime.

“At the inauguration of the present government on May 29, the President took a bold step to announce the total removal of fuel subsidy, noting that the scheme has increasingly favoured the rich more than the poor,” he said.

He said that the government’s interest in exiting the subsidy regime was in line with the policy of reducing cost of governance and the desire to eliminate corrupt practices surrounding the scheme.

“The NNPCL within the period of subsidy exit attempt, substituted the term subsidy with under recovery without any recourse to the National Assembly or supervision by any other arm of the government.

“While NNPCL within 10 years, 2006 and 2015, claimed about N170 billion as under recovery, the same NNPCL within 13 months, Jan. 2018 to Jan. 2019 claimed a whopping sum of N843.121 billion as under recovery,” he said.

The lawmaker expressed worry that the non-investigation of subsidy and alarming cost of under recovery/direct deductions by NNPCL without necessary checks, had led to great misunderstanding of the government’s good intention on subsidy removal.

Supporting the motion, Sen. Jibrin Isa (APC-Kogi) said that the utilisation of the savings arising from the removal of subsidy was very important.

“This is where our oversight function comes to play.

“These monies that are going to be recovered from the discontinuance of fuel subsidy should be used to revive some of the ailing companies in particular; the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, Itakpe Iron Ore Mining Company in Kogi and Oshogbo Iron and Steel Rolling Mills in Osun.

“Those projects can create a lot of employment opportunities, create a lot of revenue for government,” he said.

Also, Sen. Osita Izunaso (APC-Imo) said “we need to look at the palliatives to cushion the effects of subsidy removal.

“Much as we are going to make a lot of gains from subsidy removal, we have to look at the suffering of our people.”

Sen. Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno) said that previous government did not had the political will to withdraw the subsidy.

“We thank this government for taking the bull by the horn and gathering all the political will to withdraw the subsidy in the interest of Nigerians.

“We are now saving a lot of money which we can use to deploy for revamping our infrastructure.

“In view of the hardship unleashed on Nigerians as a result of the subsidy, there is the need for government to take responsibility in cushioning the effect of the removal,” he said.

The prayers were unanimously adopted by all senators after a voice vote by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

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