NNPC is Nigeria’s engine room of corruption — Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to thoroughly investigate the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

“NNPC is where people who are the real engine room of corruption are,” he said.

Speaking when the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by its president, Ayuba Wabba, visited him in Abuja yesterday, Saraki said, “While the Senate has interacted with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), it also intends to engage the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to look at the areas where the National Assembly can assist to ensure that the fight against corruption is efficiently prosecuted.

“We, in the eighth Senate, have said there will be zero tolerance for the issue of corruption. Corruption is one issue slowing down development and some of the problems we are embarking on – whether you talk about our refineries not working, you talk of the issue of fuel subsidy, you talk about the high cost of governance, everything you talked about comes back to this issue of corruption and I think it is time for all of us, those of us in the National Assembly, the executive and the workers, to show serious commitment.

“This should not be a headline-grabbing approach because at the end of the day, you are workers, when you talk about oil theft we have Nigerian workers at the terminals who surely must know when this thing is going on.”