Chairman Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Thursday denied media reports that the Senate Committee on Finance had cleared the Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the alleged missing $20billion.

Saraki, who is also a member of the Finance Committee, said nothing significant has changed to suggest the clearing of the minister and the NNPC.

He stated that even though the report of the committee has been laid before the Senate, more was still being done to unravel the missing money.

The former Governor of Kwara State, according to a statement issued by his media aide, Bamikole Omishore, in Abuja, urged the media to wait for the official release of the report to the public before jumping to conclusions.

The statement reads: “The recent media reports claiming that the Senate Committee on Finance has cleared NNPC of any unaccounted revenue fund are not true.

“Though I could not attend the last meeting of the committee, I have been very active in the investigation, nothing significant has changed to suggest clearing of anybody.

“I can say on behalf of the committee that these media reports bear no correlation to the content of the Senate Committee report and I would urge the public to disregard it in its entirety.

“The committee is yet to receive the report on the forensic audit and independent analysis on the subject clearly indicates we have a lot of grounds to cover in order to determine the level of culpability or otherwise of agency on the alleged non-committal, so to suggest any clearance for anybody at this stage is out of the question.

“I will further advise that the media should wait for the Senate to release the details of the committee report to the public before they jump into spurious conclusions.”

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No source? Even the piece was badly written. Imagine referring to bukola saraki as the chairman committee on ecology and environment.