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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

N10bn chartered jet probe: We will not appear, NNPC, PPMC write Reps
THE Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Petroleum Price Marketing Company (PPMC) have reportedly written to the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, mandated to probe the alleged N10 billion spent on chartered private jets by the Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, and officially decline to honour the invitations extended to them to appear before it.
In separate letters addressed to the chairman of the committee, Honourable Solomon Adeola Olamilekan, both NNPC and PPMC, being accused of bankrolling the cost of the chartered jets, based  their positions on the fact that case was already before different courts of competent jurisdistion.
This came just as the minister was said to have vowed not to appear before the committee, until the matters pending before the courts were resolved.
In the wake of the crisis, Alison-Madueke had approached three different courts to seek perpetual injunctions to stop the probe 
While Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja refused to grant the request to stop the probe and fixed hearing for today, the other two courts were yet to take any action on the matter.
Also, it was learnt on Tuesday that there was pressure on the committee, as well as the leadership of the House to stall the probe.
When contacted on Tuesday, Honourable Olamilekan said there was no going back, adding that “as we speak, we are set to commence the probe.”

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