15 lawmakers demand Kyari’s resignation, say NNPCL boss undermining Tinubu’s renewed hope

Fifteen lawmakers under the aegis of The Economy Rescue Group, have called on Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to resign.

The group alleged mismanagement under Kyari’s leadership at the NNPCL was responsible for the woes being recorded by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

In a statement signed in Abuja by its leader, Hon Esosa Iyawe, lawmaker representing Oredo Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, in Abuja, the lawmakers insisted that Kyari should be suspended, pending outcome of House of Representatives’ joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream and Midstream) forensic investigation into the state of the national oil company and the downstream and midstream sectors as a whole.

The lawmakers accused the NNPCL CEO and other management staff of the corporation of undermining Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda through corruption, incompetence and must be shown the way out until the forensic investigation embarked upon by the House of Representatives through the Downstream and Midstream joint Committee is concluded, in other to avoid any act of sabotage.

While backing the House’s forensic investigation into the presence of middlemen in trading, indiscriminate issuance of licenses, unavailability of laboratories to check adulterated products, the influx of adulterated products into the country, among others, the group advised President Tinubu to wield the big stick by suspending the NNPCL top echelons till the probe is over.