Business

Nigeria’s Central Bank Under Senate Probe Over N130.8bn Gas Intervention Fund



Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Gas, would this week begin an investigative hearing on the N130.8 billion Nigeria Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP) intervention fund disbursement.


To this end, the red chamber has summoned the Government of Delta State and 14 other engineering, oil and gas companies for the investigative hearing.


The Chairman of the Senate Panel who is the Senator representing Cross River North, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, had in a paid advertisement in THISDAY last Thursday, mandated the affected companies to appear on Thursday this week by 2pm.


The affected companies benefitted from the Intervention Fund which was disbursed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).


Jarigbe, asked the firms to appear with their progress reports which must indicate the location of projects and their current status.


Jarigbe, listed the affected companies and the amount of cash disbursement to include: Nipco Gas Ltd- N25,000,000,000.00; Nipco Plc- N5,000,000,000.00; Hyde Energy Ltd- N2,000,000,000.00; Lee Engineering and Constructionand Company- N15,000,000,000 00


Others are, Pinnacle Oil and Gas Fze– N10,000,000,000.00; Transit Gas Limited– N8,000,000,000.00; Amalgamated Oil Company Nig Ltd (AMOCON)– N5,000,000,000.00; Gas Nexus Ltd– N10,000,000,000.00 and First Modular Gas Systems Limited – N4,300,000,000.00


They also included, Novagas Limited– N1,000,000,000.00; Greenville Liquified Natural Gas Company-N10,000,000,000.00; AP LPG Limited – N8,000,000,000.00 and Dangote Oil Refinery– N5,000,000,000.00
The Delta State Government, according to Jarigbe, got N20,000,000,000.00 while Mob Integrated Services Limited, received N2,500,000,000.00
The CBN had in January this year, provided insight into how much it spent over the years on various intervention


The apex bank had in media reports claimed that it’s interventions which cut across different sectors of the economy have gulped over N4 trillion.


It had explained that the beneficiaries of the interventions are expected to repay the money as it is a loan, not a grant.

Sunday Aborisade

Follow us on:

AriseNews

Recent Posts

Trump Nominates Pam Bondi as Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws

Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general and Trump ally, has been nominated as US attorney…

2 hours ago

Canadian Town Council Faces Deadlock As Newly Elected Mayor, Officials Refuse To Pledge Allegiance to King Charles III

Canada’s Dawson City’s newly elected council has stalled governance, rejecting oath to King Charles in…

2 hours ago

Suspected APC Thugs Attack PDP Secretariat In Edo, Destroy, Steal Properties Worth Millions

Edo PDP has accused the APC of orchestrating an attack on party secretariat, destroying and…

3 hours ago

Nigeria Partners With IOM On Revised Migration Policy, Reveals 6.1 Million Nigerians Displaced Amidst Insecurity

The FG has partnered with IOM, announced a strategy to review migration policy and address…

3 hours ago

Dangote Group Took Up The Challenge, Built A Refinery When Shell, Chevron, Other IOCs Couldn’t, Says Dangote VP Devakumar Edwin

Dangote Group’s Edwin Devakumar has said that by building the refinery, Dangote did what IOCs…

3 hours ago

House Deputy Speaker Kalu Says Governors Receptive To Proposed Constitution Amendments

Benjamin Kalu has revealed that Nigerian governors are supportive, committed to reviewing the 161 proposed…

3 hours ago