Timipre Sylva’s Petroleum Ministry stinks of corruption, prints letterheads with N103m; N718m allegedly ‘diverted’
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The Senate on Wednesday queried the Timipre Sylva - led Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources over alleged multi-million naira financial irregularities.

This came to the fore when the upper chamber considered and adopted the report by it's Committee on Public Accounts.

In the report which was laid by the Chairman of the committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP, Edo), during plenary noted that the sums of N46,645,000.00 and N56,418,135.00 were spent on the printing of letter- headed papers by the ministry.

The Senate, while adopting recommendations by the committee demanded that the sum be recovered and paid back to the treasury.

It also called for the sanction of the Permanent Secretary in accordance with Rule 3129 of the Financial Regulations and Public Service Rules 030402 over the diversion of N23,642,000.00 from the Capital Projects Funds for purchase of Sallah/Christians welfare package to staff of the Ministry.

The Chamber also called for the identification of the Project Accountant who authorized the diversion of N32,783,052.00 meant for IPPIS raining and other programmes to bank accounts of staff of Finance and Accounts Department, instead of paying the approved amounts to beneficiaries.

The Senate demanded the refund of the amount to government coffers, including the sum of N718,911,848.00 made in the cashbook as payments to eleven corporate bodies without documentation.

In addition, the chamber called on the Ministry to identify and present for disciplinary actions the officers behind the authorization of N98,400,000.00 in favour of a company for printing of leaflets for the Petroleum Industry Bill awareness campaign Programme, N54,000,000.00 to a company for assessment and documentation of oil Spill sites in ten (10) states of the Niger Delta; and N25,000,000.00 for actualizing e-governance procedure.

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Ok

God bless me with this position of loots. Those who complain of looting are those who have no opportunity of looting.
Please God connect me. Bless those who loot. Bless those of us who want to as well.

Normal life

with what??

chrisxxx:
God bless me with this position of loots. Those who complain of looting are those who have no opportunity of looting.
Please God connect me. Bless those who loot. Bless those of us who want to as well.

Za ku mutu da wauta kafin ku sami wannan ofishin.

Looters questioning a looter.
What a country.

Basheer22:


Za ku mutu da wauta kafin ku sami wannan ofishin.

Ikule koma koma sorui. Iku ke ojoor nha ojoor kpoi ruwnu.
Owhor nu ognu.

Is buhari not the minister of petroleum why Timi Sylva

Northern Propaganda

I thought the petroleum ministry is headed by buhari to stop corruption?

Timpre SLva is a state minister and he can't do anything without the minister of petroleum issuing approval

Mikecold:
Northern Propaganda

I thought the petroleum ministry is headed by buhari to stop corruption?

Timpre SLva is a state minister and he can't do anything without the minister of petroleum issuing approval

You won’t go & meet your brother to find you something small, you are still here shouting President Buhari? Maga.

Buckeyemedia1:
You won’t go & meet your brother to find you something small, you are still here shouting President Buhari? Maga.

Sorry have we meet before?

Why using your image to mirror everybody

Thieves everywhere

We all know who the minister of petroleum is

Buckeyemedia1:
[s]You won’t go & meet your brother to find you something small, you are still here shouting President Buhari? Maga[/s].

zombeism is a pathetic disorder

Buhari is the minister of petroleum so this heading is misleading. The main culprit is Buhari, under his nose as a petroleum.mimister and as a head of state, such level.of corruption is ongoing.