Northern Group Asks Tinubu to Sack Mele Kyari

By Adedapo Adesanya

A northern-based civil society organisation, the Mega National Movement for Good Governance, has called on President Bola Tinubu to sack the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mr Mele Kyari.

The group made this demand over the sudden scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, in the Federal Capital Territory, Kaduna State and other major cities across the country.

At a press conference in Kaduna on Friday, the organisation accused the independent petroleum marketers of creating the scarcity with the intention of hiking fuel prices in the coming days.

The spokesman for the group, Mr Ibrahim Tijani, also expressed worry over the instability of prices of petroleum products resulting from a policy somersault of NNPC Limited as well as mounting allegations of monumental corruption within the company.

Among other things, the civil society group alleged that there are significant irregularities within the state oil company such as a petrol subsidy scam, under-remittance of oil sales revenue, shady pipeline surveillance contracts, and oil theft, which it laments have had a collective detrimental effect on the nation’s economy.

The group, therefore, appealed to President Tinubu to sack Mr Kyari and order a “deep interrogation” of allegations of monumental corruption entrenched in NNPC Limited under his leadership.