FEDERATION ACCOUNT ALLOCATION COMMITTEE (FAAC) MEETING DEADLOCK: Adeosun Calls Emergency Meeting With NNPC GMD
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi
Adeosun said she is meeting with the NNPC GMD over discrepancies in payment
into the Federation Account.
This is coming after the
Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting on Tuesday was
inconclusive due to discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue presented
by the NNPC.
Adeosun, who is also the Chairman
of FAAC, said she called for an emergency meeting next week with the Group
Managing Director of NNPC, Mr Maikanti Baru and other key management staff over
revenue payment into the Federation Account.
The Minister, in a statement made
available to newsmen by her Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Oluyinka
Akintunde assured Nigerians that the FAAC meeting would hold on Wednesday at 9.
a. m.
She said that the Accountant
General of the Federation, Commissioners of Finance and Accountant-Generals of
the 36 States would also be present at the meeting.
Similarly, she said that other
representatives of the NNPC, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigeria Customs
Service, Department of Petroleum Resources would also be at the meeting. NAN
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