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Oby EzekwesiliA former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has joined in the Dangote Refinery/Nigerian oil regulatory agencies fray. In her current enterprise, she has spewed quite a measure of gobbledygook against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited . Whereas, she is free to hold an opinion on developments in the polity, her intervention in the above subject matter has not only been disappointing but also troubling.
In a rather outlandish position disguised as a call for “an independent audit of why the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited capped its investment in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery at 7.2 per cent instead of the planned 20 per cent,” Ezekwesili poured invectives on the NNPC Ltd. She had claimed, through her official X handle, that she had earlier decided not to speak on the Dangote refinery.
To be sure, the former minister failed to address the issues; rather, she resorted to scurrilous attacks against the NNPC and its leadership, deploying innuendoes and insinuations in an obvious gambit to demonise the company. That, for me, is the height of absurdity.
A recent report said that since the appointment of Kyari as the GCEO of the NNPC Ltd, the company has been conducting its businesses transparently. According to the report: “It is in furtherance of its transparency push that it signed up as a supporting company of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative in 2019 to become a member of EITI’s state-owned enterprise network. With that, it upgraded its operations to meet the standard for EITI supporting companies.
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