Gbajabiamila blasts ministers for shunning subsidy probe panel

 Gbajabiamila blasts ministers for shunning subsidy probe panel

By Ibrahim Adeleke

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has blasted the top officials of the Federal Government over for not honouring the invitation to appear before a panel set up to probe volume of fuel consumed in Nigeria.

The committee was to meet with the stakeholders on Tuesday to address the issue of fuel subsidy.

The Speaker particularly called out the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele; and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (formerly Group Managing Director of the defunct Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), Melee Kyari; as well as the Managing Director of Petroleum Pipeline Marketing Company, Isiaku Abdullahi, among others.

The committee, chaired by Abdulkadir Abdullahi, had summoned the GMD of the NNPC; MD of the PPMC; Accountant-General of the Federation; the CBN governor; Minister of State and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources; Minister of Finance and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance.

Gbajabiamila was represented by the Deputy Majority Leader, Peter Akpatason.

He described the absence of critical stakeholders from the hearing as an affront to the National Assembly.

Also, he noted that a few of the stakeholders represented were officials whose ranks are too low to answer for their organisations.

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