Ethnic Youth Leaders have vowed to occupy the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) headquarters in Abuja if the suspects of refineries probe are arrained without the former Executive Vice President, Downstream of NNPCL, Dapo Segun.
They expressed dismay over what they described as the shielding of
Dapo Segun, the present Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NNPC Limited and harassment of people from a section of the country over the refinery rehabilitation scandal being probed by the anti-graft agency.
In a statement issued by its coordinator, Meliga Godwin, the leaders of young Nigerians from the various ethnicities lamented that the present NNPCL’s CFO who served as the Executive Vice President, Downstream in the previous management of NNPCL is excluded from the probe of the refinery rehabilitation scandal.
They recalled the recently alleged detention of the former Chief Finance Officer of the NNPC Limited, Umar Ajiya Isa by the EFCC over involvement in the $7.2 billion refinery rehabilitation fraud while Segun is not only shielded but rewarded with the former’s position.
“Though Isa had said he rather submitted himself to the anti-graft agency and not arrested, an official of EFCC reportedly confirmed that the commission’s operatives had arrested him in connection with an alleged $7.2bn fraud related to the rehabilitation of the Kaduna, Warri, and Port Harcourt refineries.
“Also, EFCC reportedly arrested the former Managing Director of the Warri Refinery, Jimoh Olasunkanmi. However, the commission turned blind eye to the major role played by Segun who as the Executive Vice President for the downstream, was directly responsible for refinery operations, shipping, trading, and treasury.
“Also, EFCC listed the following officials mostly from a section of the country in the probe. They include: the former Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Mele Kyari; the former Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC), Ibrahim Onoja; and the former Managing Director of Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), Mustafa Sugungun.
“Others are former Group Managing Director of NNPC, Abubakar Yar’Adua; a former NNPC group executive director, finance & services; Isiaka Abdulrazak; a former Chief Financial Officer NNPC Limited, Umar Ajiya; the former Managing Director of the PHRC, Dikko Ahmed.
“As we learnt of EFCC’s planned arraignment of the suspects in the probe, the commission should be reminded that failure to include Dapo Segun will be resisted by Ethnic Youth leaders. We are mobilising our members across the length and breadth of the country so we will occupy the agency’s headquarters if the former EVP who should be the prime suspect is not part of those to be arained.”