The
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative on Sunday
released a letter sent to it by the Petroleum Products Pricing
Regulatory Agency, acknowledging the draft audit report of NEITI.
This, it said, showed that the PPPRA was
informed of its N4.423bn debt to the federation, arising from
over-recovery collected from independent oil marketers between 2008 and
2009.
NEITI’s action was prompted by the
PPPRA’s earlier statement that it never signed off any document
endorsing the recently released audit report.
The PPPRA had described the report as confusing and urged NEITI to desist from misleading Nigerians.
But the Director of Communications,
NEITI, Dr. Ogbonnaya Orji, who showed journalists a letter dated June
28, 2013 sent to his organisation by the PPPRA, said, “When the draft
report was finally ready, it was made available to all agencies for
their vetting, and more inputs where necessary.
“I wish to state that the PPPRA received the draft report, reviewed it, and participated in the final reconciliatory meeting.
“After that meeting from where all other
agencies and companies signed-off, the PPPRA still came up with
additional information on the 28th of June; clearly two days before the
final deadline with a letter ref A4/4/735/c.288/1/687/10. In that
letter, the PPPRA specifically requested NEITI to consider same as
‘superseding all earlier correspondences on the issues.’ In the
EITI/NEITI process that was ‘a sign-off.”
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