Nigeria: SURE-P - NNPC Can't Account for N500 Billion - Senate

6 November 2013

The Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) says the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) is unable to account for N500 billion accruing to the programme.

The deputy Senate leader, Abdul Ningi, who doubles as chairman of the Senate SURE-P committee, said the programme is being undermined from the inside, adding that the NNPC failed to show up at the Senate to explain the discrepancy in the funds for the programme.

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