The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC says contrary to widespread reports, it does not owe the
Federal Accounts Allocation Committee any revenue.
The position was contained in a
statement published today (Sunday) in Abuja by the Acting Group General Manager, Public
Affairs Division of the NNPC, Tony Green.
The statement said the recent attacks
on the NNPC were based on baseless and unwarranted evidence, aimed at
distracting the corporation’s leadership from its assignment.
Minister of Finance and Coordinating
Minister of the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had on Saturday, cleared the NNPC
of any default in revenue remittance to the federation account for the month of
July this year.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala said the NNPC has
paid the seventy-five billion naira owed the Federation Account, adding that
the various states of the federation has been given their due share of the
revenue.
A
disagreement over payments of revenue generated by the NNPC has deadlocked
meetings of Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, with state Commissioners of
Finance abandoning the meeting.
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