Reps Threatens To sack of NNPCL CEO, Kyari

If Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, persists in impeding the seamless functioning of the Dangote Refinery, the House of Representatives has threatened to demand his resignation.

While briefing reporters in the capital city of Abuja on Saturday, Philip Agbese, the deputy spokesman for the House, revealed this

This comes after the member from Benue said that the legislature has already shown support for the demand that Mr. Farouk Ahmed, the CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, be fired.

According to the All Progressives Congress legislator, the NNPCL and the NMDPRA have demonstrated their intention to work against the Dangote Refinery.

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He said, “We have been seeing many demarketing campaigns to discredit the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, and given the negative impact of this, which has caused panic in the country.

“The House of Representatives will not hesitate to call for the dismissal of Mele Kyari if the attempt to destroy the refinery project, a national asset, does not stop immediately.”

This comes less than two weeks after the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, led a delegation of the House on an assessment visit to the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company in Lagos.

The House Special Committee investigating oil theft and losses is currently questioning stakeholders in the oil sector and has vowed to go about its assignment without fear or favour.