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  • Updated: November 17, 2022

Oil Theft: Ad Hoc Committee Members Reject Report

Oil Theft: Ad Hoc Committee Members Reject Report

On the Senate floor on Wednesday, there was a small amount of drama when the Ad hoc Committee on Oil Theft members renounced the report that its chairman, Senator Akpan Bassey, had offered for deliberation and adoption.

The report was rejected seven months after the committee was given the task, but there was an issue with members disowning it.

The problem began when the report was given for discussion and eventual adoption by the committee's chairman, Senator Akpan Bassey, YPP, Akwa Ibom North East.

On April 14, 2022, the Senate constituted a 13-member Ad-Hoc Committee on Oil Lifting, Theft, and the Impact on Petroleum Production and Oil Revenues.

Senator Akpan Bassey, who also serves as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), would serve as the committee's chairman.

The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided, was the first to comment on the lack of signatures on the report by the members, stating that only six out of the 13 members had done so.

“After the first meeting, I was not invited to any other meeting and I did not attend any, making this report before us today, a very strange one to me.”

Another committee member who disowned the report was Senator Kashim Shettima of the APC from Borno Central.

He claimed that because he was not invited to any committee meetings, he was unable to comment on the report that was sent to the Senate for discussion and approval.

The Deputy Senate President, dissatisfied with the submissions, asked Senator George Sekibo, a member of the committee, to offer a solution.

In response, Sekibo proposed that the report be withheld until Monday of the following week to allow for consensus among committee members before being re-presented on Tuesday in plenary.

Omo-Agege then put the proposal to a voice vote, and the majority of the Senators agreed.

As of April, the committee was made up of the following senators: Akpan Bassey (Chairman), Yusuf A. Yusuf, Solomon Adeola, Kabiru Gaya, Mohammed Aliero, George Sekibo, Gabriel Suswam, Kashim Shettima, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, Ali Ndume, Stella Oduah, Sani Musa, and Ibrahim Gobir.

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