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| Aig-Imoukhuede |
25 oil-marketing and trading companies (OM&Ts) were recommended for
criminal investigations by the Presidential Committee on Verification and
Reconciliation of Subsidy Payments and not 21 as earlier announced. The
committee, which was headed by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of
Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, had announced that 21 companies
were indicted in the report.
President Goodluck Jonathan had set up the verification committee early this
month to verify and reconcile the report of the technical committee, also
headed by Aig-Imoukhuede, which was set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance
last May to verify all claims and payments made to marketers in 2011.
In the report of the technical committee, scores of marketers and importers
were alleged to have committed 17 infractions that cost the country
N422,542,937,668.59 in over-payments. However, after the N422 billion was
subjected to reconciliation and verification by the presidential committee, N18
billion was found to have been duplicated, while N21 billion was cleared from
the report of the technical committee, bringing down the over-payments to
N382,018,250,982.52.
The indicted companies include Alminnur Resources Limited, Brila Energy
Limited, Caades Oil and Gas Limited, Capital Oil and Gas Industry Limited and
Capital Oil Plc. Others include Ceoti Limited, Conoil Plc, Downstream Energy
Source Limited, Eterna Oil Plc, Eurafic Oil and Gas Limited, Heyden Petroleum,
Lumen Skies Limited, Majope Investment Limited, Masters Energy Oil and Gas
Limited, Matrix Energy Limited, Menol Oil and Gas Limited, MOB International
Services Limited and MRS Oil and Gas Plc. The rest of the companies include
Nasaman Oil Services Limited, Naticel Petroleum Limited, Ocean Energy Trading
and Services Limited, Pinnacle Contractors Limited, Sifax Oil and Gas Limited,
Tonique Oil Services Limited and Top Oil and Gas Development Company Limited.
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