Fuel queue: “They’re milking Nigeria,” DG DSS urged to investigate Kyari, others

• A Centre has called on the newly appointed DSS Director-General, Adeola Ajayi, to investigate Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of NNPC, and other top oil sector officials
• The rights group accused Kyari, along with Gbenga Olu Komolafe (NUPRC CEO) and Farouk Ahmed (NMDPRA CEO), of unaccounted crude oil sales
• The group urged the DSS to launch an in-depth investigation into these officials’ activities

DSS urged to probe Kyari, Komolafe, and others
Photo credit: @AMTanimu/@ibrahimadeshin1/@HWokochaSource: TwitterGroup decries gross corruption in Nigeria’s oil sectorThe Director General would be alarmed about the rot in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria under the watch of the above-listed individuals.They have constituted themselves as clogs in the wheels of progress in the country. They have continued to milk the country dry by frustrating the functionality of the refineries in the country.It is also on record that they have been neck deep in frustrating the desire for local refining of petroleum products in the country, preferring the export our crude oil to refineries linked to them outside the shores of the country, thereby shortchanging the government and accruing forex debts on the already stretched economy of the country.”Group calls for in-depth investigationWe are therefore using this medium to call for an investigation of the above-mentioned individuals in a bid to unravel their nefarious activities and also put an end to it for the betterment of the country at large.”Tinubu asked to resign as Petroleum Minister

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