The
House of Representatives yesterday Feb. 24th directed its Committees on
Petroleum Upstream and Public Procurement to investigate an alleged $260
million dollars oil contract awarded by the National Petroleum Investment
Management Services (NAPIMS), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC.
This
directive followed a debate on a motion raised by Rep. Gabriel Kolawole (Akoko
South East/South West Federal Constituency, Ondo State – APC). Hon Kolawole said that NAPIMS,
granted approval for Esso Exploration, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobile to award
four single source contracts for projects in Exxon Mobil’s Usan Deep water
project at the total sum of $260 million without a tendering process.
Thye
further explained that NAPIMS had, through three memoranda dated October 13,
2014, February 10, 2015 and April 16, 2015, single handedly nominated four
companies to execute the contracts
without approval from both the Board of the NNPC and its Group Executive
Committee (GEC).
The
joint committees have been given a period of 4 weeks to investigate the matter
and report back to the House.
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