By Nathaniel Zacchaeus, Abuja
The Senate Committee on Gas yesterday summoned the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited, Justin Ezeala.
He was asked to make available details of the gas sales and purchase agreements with gas companies.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Agom Jarigbe, announced the invitation of the Managing Director of the Nigeria Gas Marketing Company Limited, after a closed-door session of the committee members at the National Assembly.
The Committee in its resolutions at the end of the meeting expressed dissatisfaction with the action of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari.
Kyari was alleged to have been preventing the National Assembly Committees from oversighting subsidiaries of NNPCL which the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) empowers the committee to do.
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The Committee is also demanding to know the financiers of the Auto CNG Project with NiPCO, where NGML has approved an Investment of N30bn.
The panel’s resolutions read, “The Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited should appear to give details of the Gas sales and purchase agreements with Gas companies.
“The Committee also expressed dissatisfaction with the attempt by the Group CEO of NNPCL preventing the Committee of National Assembly from directly over-sighting subsidiaries of NNPCL which the Petroleum Industry Act empowers the committee to oversight.
“The Committee, therefore, resolved to use relevant provisions of the constitution to enforce the appearance of the Managing Director of Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited if he fails to honour the invitation of the committee again.”
