Ex-NNPCL Boss Kyari Submits Self To EFCC Over Alleged Multi-billion Dollar Refinery Fraud

Former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Engr. Mele Kyari, connected Wednesday, appeared earlier the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) successful Abuja for questioning implicit a multi-billion-dollar refinery attraction project.

Kyari arrived astatine the EFCC office astatine precisely 2:15 p.m., pursuing an authoritative invitation to clarify what sources described arsenic “financial and method issues” linked to his tenure astatine the state-owned lipid company.

According to News Point Nigeria, insiders astatine the anti-graft bureau confirmed that the erstwhile NNPCL brag was being interrogated successful transportation with the arguable $7.2 cardinal refineries’ turnaround attraction project, a woody that has faced years of nationalist disapproval and allegations of gross mismanagement.

The improvement came conscionable days aft the Federal High Court successful Abuja ordered a impermanent frost of 4 slope accounts allegedly linked to Kyari implicit suspected fraud and fiscal impropriety. The EFCC had earlier placed him connected its watchlist, a determination that heightened scrutiny of his stewardship.

While details of Wednesday’s league remained sketchy, analysts accidental Kyari’s quality signaled a renewed determination by the EFCC to property guardant with high-profile corruption cases successful Nigeria’s lipid and state sector, a assemblage agelong regarded arsenic the backbone of the nation’s system but arsenic dogged by scandals.

Kyari, who was replaces arsenic NNPCL’s GCEO earlier this twelvemonth by President Bola Tinubu, has truthful acold remained soundless connected the allegations. However, his determination to taxable himself to investigators was wide interpreted arsenic a tactical effort to amusement willingness to cooperate with the probe.