A group, the George Uboh Whistleblowers Network, on Tuesday, stormed the National Assembly to demand transparency from the House of Representatives panel, set up to look into the 48 million barrels of oil that were illegally sold in China.
The group, led by one Peter Umoh, which described itself as a civil society organisation with the mandate to fight corruption, carried banners and placards with inscriptions denouncing the setting up of the ad-hoc committee by the lower chamber when the crime, according to them, is already being litigated against in the court of law.
The House of Representatives had in December 2022, resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate a whistleblower’s claims that 48 million barrels of Bonny Light crude were illegally sold in China in 2015, as well as the insurance status of the cargo.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion moved by Ibrahim Isiaka, a member of the house.
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In the motion, Isiaka said, “The house is aware of allegations by a whistleblower in July 2020 that he had in July 2015 and in response to the current administration’s whistleblower policy brought to the attention of a committee purportedly set up by the President for the recovery of missing crude oil exports, the existence of 48 million barrels of Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil in storage at several ports in China ostensibly under the authorisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the intention of...
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