George Oji
13 July 2009
Kaduna — Newly appointed Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (NEITI), Alhaji Haruna Sa'eed, has said one of his greatest challenges is to get Nigerians to appreciate the commission and tap into opportunities it provides.
Speaking in Kaduna, weekend, as special guest at the commissioning of an ultra-modern training hall, Sa'eed said only a few Nigerians are aware that they have a constitutional responsibility of demanding that revenues accruable to government are judiciously and transparently utilised.
NEITI was set up by the Federal Government to ensure transparency in the oil, gas and solid mineral sectors, so that its revenue get to government coffers.
It also ensures that government agencies saddled with the responsibility of collecting revenues collect it the way they ought to do, and account for same.
Sa'eed, who is the immediate past Accountant General of Kaduna State, said following the first auditing of the extractive sector initiated by his Commission, covering 1999 to 2004, over one billion US Dollars was recovered by government as revenue, while the 2005 audit report is now ready and awaiting the president's approval before it would be made public.
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