It has turned out that Agbese and his colleagues in parliament, who I thought condoned his faux pas, are just as displeased as I and many are.
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“We are aware that investigation is ongoing and final decision has not been reached. However, our attention has been drawn to some media reports calling for the removal of the Group Chief Executive Officer of the NNPCL and the Chief Executive Officer of NMDPRA while the above investigation is subsisting.
That the NNPCL itself is a business organisation operating in the same field as Dangote Refinery and is thus not obligated to mollycoddle or babysit it, was conveniently lost on Agbese as is the fact that the NMDPRA, as the regulatory agency overseeing the Midstream and Downstream sectors of the Nigerian oil and gas sector, is constitutionally mandated to scrutinise the operations of business entities like Dangote Refinery.
These are questions begging for answers. The NMDPRA was created to oversee companies like Dangote Refinery operating in the Midstream and Downstream sectors of the Nigerian petroleum industry. If any member of the National Assembly is displeased by the manner it is carrying out its duties, it can summon the head of that agency to parliament for questioning, instead of denigrating both the agency and its CEO publicly without conducting an impartial and independent inquiry as Rep. Agbese has done.
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