A total probe of the administration run by immediate past
president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan is underway as the National Econimic Council,
NEC, Ad-hoc committee on the Management of Excess Crude Account Proceeds and Accruals into the the Federation Account, headed by the Governor of Edo state, Mr.
Adams Oshiomhole, is to hire two international forensic audit firms to probe
revenue that accrued into the Federation Account and how it was spent under
former Dr Goodluck Jonathan as president.
Mr. Oshiomhole told journalists at the end of the first
meeting of the committee in Abuja, yesterday that the auditors would cover the
period January1, 2010 to June 1, 2015.
Already, some revenue generating agencies have been invited
to brief the committee which will take detailed briefings from all Ministries,
Departments and Agencies, MDAs of the Federal Government that deal directly
with revenue.
The focus will be on the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, the Nigeria Customs Service, the Central Bank of Nigeria,
the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparemcy Initiative, NEITI, among others.
Other members of the committee included Gov. Nasir Ahmed
El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State and udom Emmanuel of
Akwa Ibom.
“At the end of the audit we will hear them out
and reconcile them with what the law says and arrive at a position.Given the
volume of work and complicated nature of issues, we agreed we need
professionals to carry out the audit. It is only the professionals that can
handle it. It is not good to compromise
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