Ribadu Taskforce Conflicts With NEITI

The high expectations Nigerians had over Mallam Nuhu Ribadu‘s appointment as the chairman of the Revenue Taskforce for the Oil Sector may not be easily met as the responsibilities assigned to the taskforce are by law the mandate of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).

This development is coming as the main committee is scheduled to hold its first meeting this week to fashion out its mode of operations to achieve the mandate spelt out for it by the petroleum Minister, Mrs Dieziani Allison-Maduekwe.

NEITI was set up by an Act of the National Assembly with a statutory responsibility to track revenue inflows in the oil and mineral sectors with a view to enforcing transparency and accountability in the sector, the same task that is now assigned to Ribadu committee.

While the Ribadu committee is only a ministerial committee, NEITI has a force of law with an international dimension as it was stipulated for all oil and mineral rich nations as a way of eradicating corruption from the extractive industry sector.

Investigations by Saturday Tribune showed that since the appointment of the Ribadu committee, NEITI and its inter-ministerial team have become uncomfortable as there was no reference to NEITI in the making of the Ribadu committee.

Findings within the NEITI system revealed a feeling of neglect and confusion as the Ribadu committee is expected to be doing the job of NEITI even when the ministerial committee has no force of law behind its existence.

Sources within the Petroleum Ministry however, allayed the fear of any clash as the Ribadu committee is expected to work with NEITI for it to successfully deliver on its assignment and mandate.

Meanwhile the Ribadu committee is to meet this week to consider all issues surrounding its operations as some committee members are said to have identified the NEITI issue as a critical area to watch in the committee’s operations.

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The high expectations Nigerians had over Mallam Nuhu Ribadu‘s appointment as the chairman of the Revenue Taskforce for the Oil Sector may not be easily met as the responsibilities assigned to the taskforce are by law the mandate of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).

Rubbish!!! We need to enact more task forces with the same responsibilities now . . . . abi boys no go chop dem own

Who is NEITI and why have they not performed all these while?

I see the cabal at work to frustrate the Ribadu taskforce. Smart thieves operating,

Its simple. Disband members of NEITI and put the Ribadu team in their place. QED.

Ribadu's team is d next EFCC in d oil sector.

Oh yes, I knew it will happen, they will never feel comfortable to work with formidable Ribadu who is a reputable anti corruption Cesar. You see now !!!! I knew it before that inferno will soon catch up with that side immediately ribadu appointment was introduced. Now everyone can see that corruption is order of the broad day light in nigeria and only corrupted people can survive in any capacity. The same thing that would have happen to Nigeria as a nation itself if chance were given to Buhari or Ribadu to win the president seat. But instead, the suffer head tribal and ethnic bigot Nigerians ignore the fact on the ground and voted for baboon chief of corruption itself to be leader out of tribal discrimination .  

Mallam Rubadu should go on if the so call NEITI were doing their work there would have been no need to set up this committee they were sleeping so let them sleep on and on  Rubadu please carry on God bless you and your members

It is Ribadu payback time for playing the devils advocate in the 2011 proposed alliance between ACN and CPC.