House of Representatives yesterday asked the federal government to furnish it with the detailed report of the forensic audit of accounts and transactions of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Femi Gbajabiamila, minority Leader in a motion under urgent public importance, said following the allegation by Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that the sum of about $20 billion was unremitted to the Federation Account by the NNPC, the Federal Government set up an audit into the account of the cooperation.
It would be recalled that the NNPC and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) were indicted by the investigative forensic audit by PriceWaterHouse Coopers into the allegations of unremitted funds to the Federation Accounts.
The highlight of the report was released by Mr. Samuel Ukura, auditor general for the Federation, in Abuja recently.
In the report, the accounting firm asked both organisations to refund to the Federation Account “a minimum of $1.48billion.”
PriceWaterHouse, was last year hired to carry out the exercise following an allegation by Sanusi, the former governor of the CBN that $20 billion was not remitted to the Federation Account by the NNPC.
Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano had written a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan that $49 billion was not remitted to the Federation Account by the NNPC.
But following the controversy which the letter generated, a committee was set up to reconcile the account.
Sanusi later recanted and said the unremitted fund was $12 billion which he later changed to $20 billion.
At the House of Representatives yesterday, Gbajabiamila, waxed worried that up till now nobody has been briefed about the outcome of the report and that in view of the Freedom of Information Act, the House should call on the Federal Government to make available the report of the audit firm to the House.
Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the House, after the motion was passed by majority urged the federal government to make public the audit report and make it available to the House.