Senator Adams Oshiomhole on Wednesday called for the immediate arrest of the former Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, or NNPC, Chief Executive Officer Mele Kyari, over allegations of corruption and financial misconduct.
Oshiomhole accused the former NNPCL boss of failing to account for alleged mismanagement of trillions of naira during his tenure, insisting that the committee should not delay in exercising its constitutional powers.
According to him, the Senate committee must “have the courage” to issue a warrant of arrest immediately, stating that Kyari should be made to answer for his actions in office.
He said, “Mr. Chairman, this committee must have the courage and the will to deploy his powers as initiated in the Nigerian constitution and issue a warrant not tomorrow but today and bring Mel Kyari, even dead or alive.” ” Even if he is dead, we want to see the body, and he will account for it, and you should say, “Here lies a man who died without accounting for his alleged crime that runs into trillions of naira.”
“At a time when the country is borrowing money, we have few sources of money that have not been accounted for. There are serious issues not raised by lame men but by competent auditors, and the man is joking? Where did he have the money to pay for his medical bill in Germany? Having failed repeatedly, we cannot condone this.”
“Mele Kyari cannot be represented by a person; he’s no longer a managing director, and his responsibility is to account for his actions as MD. He cannot be represented in that capacity.”
“I hold the view that your leadership end to exceptions. Yes. End to excuses. I will evoke our powers to order the arrest of Mel Kyari and the managing director of NNPC, both the past and the present, they are guilty of the same offense, total disregard to the Nigerian constitution and unable to account for the gross abuse of our major source of revenue running into trillions of naira.
