Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Plc Groupe Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, has said that owing a blending plant outside the country by any NNPC official amounts to great secuty threats.
This is as he denied being part of such a scheme, in response to an allegation by President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote.
Kyari, in a statement, urged government to investigate the allegation because of its security concerns.
The statement read: “I am inundated by enquiries from family members, friends, and associates on the public declaration by the President of Dangote Group that some NNPC workers have established a blending plant in Malta, thereby impeding procurements from local production of petroleum products.
“To clarify the allegations regarding the blending plant, I do not own or operate any business directly or by proxy anywhere in the world except for a local mini-agric venture, neither am I aware of any employee of the NNPC that owns or operates a blending plant in Malta or anywhere else in the world.
“A blending plant in Malta or any part of the world does not influence NNPC’s business operations and strategic actions.”
The NNPC boss threatened to sanction any official of the company involved in such acts if they truly existed.
“For further assurance, our compliance sanction grid shall apply to any NNPC employee who is established to be involved in doing so if availed, and I strongly recommend that such individuals be declared public and be made known to relevant government security agencies for necessary actions because of the grave implications for national energy security,” he stated.
