By David Owei<\/p>\n
The House of Representative has issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Programme Coordinator of the HydroCarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HyPREP) to appear before the Public Account Committee of the House for explanation over allegations of mismanagement of over #400billion in the 2021 and 2024 Audit report from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation.<\/p>\n
The ultimatum followed the adoption of a resolution to that effect at a Public hearing of the Committee held today and attended by twenty-seven members.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the hearing, Chairman of the Committee Rep. Bamidele Salam noted that the ultimatum serves as the final warning after HyPREP failed to appear before the committee despite four different invitations extended to them.<\/p>\n
He added that failure to appear before the Committee by Monday 12th October, 2026, the House will be compelled to invoke its power and compel appearance by the Accounting officer of the agency.<\/p>\n
The Committee also extended the same invitation to the Chairman Board of Trustees of the Ogoni Remediation Trust Fund.<\/p>\n
According to the Audited Reports presented before the Committee HyPREP failed to submit its audited account to the Office of the Auditor General from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n
Other queries include: Irregular award of Contracts and non-deduction of Statutory Taxes of $2.1million; Payment of #986million Consultancy Without Execution; Irregular Payment of #315million for Training; Payment of #7.2billion for poorly executed contracts; payment of #268m without prepayment audit; Non-deduction of #32million statutory taxes; Engagement of External Solicitors with #31.8million without Attorney General Approval; Crude oil recovery from remediation site without being documented; Adoption of progressive salary scale for contract staff; Extra-budgetary expenditure of #931million.<\/p>\n
Others are: Duplication of Services through award of Contracts worth #182million; Duplication of function monitoring and evaluation worth #507million; Irregular Payment of #43million for advertisement without evidence of performance; Irregular stay in office by an officer after the expiration of the secondment period.<\/p>\n
According to the 2024 Audit Report presented before the Committee HyPREP made an Unverified #1.5billion payment of compensation.<\/p>\n
Also queried are: Non-retirement of #14million of cash advances; Irregular payment of #229.1million; Payment of #260million for training programme without evidence of execution; Denial of access to #27.5billion project documents and records.<\/p>\n
Rep. Salam added that the HYPREP and Ogoni Trust Fund will also speak to issues surrounding the 1 billion dollars contributed for the claen up of the Ogoni land after the pull out of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of which the Renaissance Energy Ltd claimed to have made a contribution of over 900 million dollars to the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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