Human rights professional person and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has asked the Minister of State for crude oil Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to produce him with data concerning the “loss of $60 billion oil revenue”.
He created the request in a very letter addressed to the minister and dated April ten, 2019, a replica of that was sent to Channels tv on Sunday. The senior advocate aforementioned the centralized has refused to gather the aforementioned quantity from International Oil corporations (IOCs) as at August 2017.
He urged Kachikwu to produce details on however the state lost $60 billion oil revenue from non-implementation of Production Sharing Contract (PSC) terms between the govt. and therefore the IOCs. Falana noted that he had educated the minister whereas he was the cluster administrator of the Nigerian National crude oil Corporation (NNPC) in 2015 regarding the non-implementation of the PSC terms.
He adscititious that Kachikwu had additionally confirmed the massive oil revenue loss and goddamned it on “public officials”. in keeping with him, the acting chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and monetary Commission, Mr Shetima Bana, additionally created a confirmation in Gregorian calendar month 2019.
The lawyer, therefore, asked the minister to produce the knowledge he requested, in with the liberty of knowledge Act. He gave Kachikwu a seven-day demand to create the knowledge obtainable, stressing that he would be forced to hunt a writ ought to the minister didn't do thus. The Chief of employees to the minister, Oge Modie, acknowledged receipt of Falana’s request in another letter signed and dated April eleven, 2019.
Read Falana’s letter below:
In my letter dated fifth Nov 2015, addressed to you in your capability because the cluster administrator of the Nigerian National crude oil Corporation (NNPC), I referred to as your attention to the refusal of the regulative agencies within the Ministry of crude oil Resources to enforce the assembly Sharing Contracts signed with the International Oil corporations by the centralized.
In a public statement attributable to you someday in August 2017, you probably did open up to the media that Nigeria had lost not but $60 Billion thanks to the refusal of some public officers to implement the terms of the assembly Sharing Contracts between the centralized and therefore the International Oil corporations.
In another public statement created on Robert E Lee's Birthday, 2019 by the Acting Chairman of the Revenue, Mobilisation, Allocation and monetary Commission, Mr Shetima Bana, confirmed the loss of oil revenue of $60 billion arising from the non-implementation of the aforementioned production sharing contracts.
In view of the preceding, i'm compelled to request you to furnish ME with data on the revenue of $60 billion that the centralized has refused to gather from the International Oil corporations as at August 2017. As this request is formed consistent to section the supply of the liberty {of data|of data|of knowledge} Act you're needed to produce the requested information not later than seven days from the date of the receipt of this letter.
TAKE NOTICE that if you fail or refuse to accede to my request, I shall be compelled to use to the Federal tribunal to direct you to avail ME with the knowledge on the loss of the oil revenue of $60 billion.
Read Kachikwu’s Response Below:
On behalf of the Honourable Minister of State for crude oil Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, this can be to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated tenth April 2019 and received eleventh April 2019 on the on top of material,” the letter browse.
Please settle for the assurances of the Honourable Minister’s best regards.
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