Nigeria: The Truth

4 March 2015

opinion By Nigeria National Petroleum Commission

OUR attention has been drawn to The Guardian editorial of 23 February 2015 titled "Forensic Audit of NNPC: Matters Arising. We are encouraged and hereby commend The Guardian Editorial Board for recognizing and acknowledging that the fantastic allegations hitherto made against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by concerned but uninformed citizens have turned out to be "unfounded," as the paper aptly put it. Within a period of six months, NNPC operations have been subjected to close scrutiny both by the Senate of the Federal Republic and by an international audit firm, the PwC which carried out a forensic examination of these claims.

Both bodies returned a verdict of not guilty to the Corporation.

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