-By Saidu Abubakar
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari has revealed that the corporation has created an anti-corruption desk at the Towers that engages the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-corruption agencies on a regular basis.
“The desk ensures that in all our operations, every staff complies to the code of conduct procedures with consequence management.
“We have established regulatory compliant governance charter and transparency policy, this is a mark of our compliance to the anti-corruption strategy,” Kyari stated.
In his presentation at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes Kyari, said the Corporation was championing the fight against corruption in the Oil and Gas Industry by putting in place, measures to curb incidences of corruption across its various business portfolios and by enlisting as a partner company of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
He said that the Corporation, as part of its commitment to the war against corruption, has set up processes and structures that are irreversible which would ensure transparency and accountability.
This is just as the Nigerian Senate has commended the NNPC for its efforts towards entrenching transparency and stamping out corruption from its system.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Senator Suleiman Abdu Kwari, at the hearing which held at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, to assess the level of implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy by government agencies, had commended NNPC for its giant strides in that direction.
Senator Kwari said it is heartwarming to learn that the NNPC was making great strides towards profitability and urged the Corporation to sustain the gains recorded so far for the good of the country.