Reps to President: Don't spare Diezani

The House Representatives yesterday said Tuesday's sack of the NNPC management was not enough as far as the subsidy probe report was concerned as the corporation's board must also be flushed out and those indicted be prosecuted.Spokesman for the House, Zakari Mohammed, who spoke to Daily Trust in Abuja, said the sack of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation management was a tacit implementation of the subsidy probe report by the president, but that he has not gone far enough.He said the House frowns at 'selective implementation' of the report, which also recommended the dissolution of the NNPC board headed by Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.'There should be holistic implementation of the subsidy probe report because there are many things we recommended such the overhauling of the board of NNPC under the chairmanship of the minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and the prosecution of all those found wanting in the subsidy fraud,' Mohammed said.He said it would be 'very unfair' for the management to be sacked while the board which okays all their decisions remains.'Let the implementation be holistic,' he added.On Tuesday, President Goolduck Jonathan fired the NNPC Group Managing Director Austen Oniwon and replaced him with Engineer Andrew Yakubu. Six other group executive directors were also replaced.In its report on the fraud in the fuel subsidy management, the House recommended the dissolution of the management and board of the NNPC, and also recommended the appointment of one more minister for the petroleum ministry.
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