One of the companies allegedly indicted in the fuel subsidy
probe by the Hon. Farouk Lawan-led Ad hoc Committee on the Administration of
Petroleum Subsidy has dragged the House of Representatives alongside the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Skye Bank Plc to court over wrongful
accusation and defamation of character.
The aggrieved company, Serene Greenfields Limited, had
written to the House of Representatives, CBN and Skye Bank to clarify their
roles in the said subsidy probe, which it claimed were false, wrongful and
damaging.
Lawan’s committee had on page 145 under the sub-heading;
“Financial Infractions” indicted about 15 oil companies/marketers including
Serene Greenfields ltd, for allegedly obtaining a combined forex of
$337,842,663.86 and $64,767,763.22 in 2010 and 2011 respectively “but were not
found to have supplied and collected subsidy on petroleum products”.
However, the company in a letter dated April 23, 2012 asked
its banker and financier, Skye Bank Plc, from which it obtained loan for its
business, to immediately issue “a letter to the Committee highlighting the fact
that the company was never involved in any PMS (Premium Motor Spirit) imports
and that the transaction in question was an AGO (Automated Gas Oil) transaction
which was followed to the end.
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