Says Reps panel lack transparency
Hundreds of protesters from George Uboh Whistleblowers Network stormed the main entrance to Nigeria’s National Assembly picketing against the Honourable Mark Gbillah led Ad – Hoc Committee of the House of Representatives on alleged 48 million barrels of stolen crude oil later 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 angry protesters accused the ad-hoc committee of a lack of proper investigation as various processes were boycotted.
