Friday, 13 January 2012

NANS demands immediate probe of NNPC


The National Association of Nigerian Students has demanded an immediate probe of the activities of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation from 1999 till date.
This is just at it denounced violence being perpetrated by hoodlums, who infiltrated the ranks of respected Nigerians engaged in peaceful demonstrations against the removal of fuel subsidy.
The National President, NANS, Mr. Dauda Mohammed, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, expressed shock at the level of fraud that had characterised the fuel subsidy regime, adding that a few individuals had defrauded Nigerians over the years and should be brought to book.
Mohammed said, “During our consultation/interaction with the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and his economic team led by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, sometimes in December 2011, our leadership was shocked by revelations and statistics on the abuse of the petroleum subsidy policy and the recurring corruption/ enrichment of few importers, incapacitation of local refining capacity and the monopoly the system has fostered on the Nigerian people.”
NANS, while calling for more dialogue to resolve the dispute, dissociated itself from the violence and needless loss of innocent lives that had attended protests in some parts of the country.

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