The lawmakers also plan to ascertain progress on the ongoing works in all refineries in order to prevent waste and corruption and interrogate the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, and Bureau of Public Enterprises on the best approach to commercializing and/or ensuring profitability of the state-owned Refineries; and Invite the NNPCL, NUPRC and LNG to explain the country’s preparation for Green Energy Sources in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The Senate frowned at what they perceive to be sabotage of the Federal Government’s effort to resuscitate the nation’s refineries, in spite of eleven point three five trillion naira spent on maintenance of the moribund refineries.
The Senate has also raised the urgent need for security agencies to probe the circumstances leading to the Otukpo bank robbery attack on Friday, October 20 which claimed the lives of eight persons including four police personnel.
It also called for an unraveling of reasons behind the lack of intelligence and alertness on the part of the police on the day of the attack.
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