EXPOSED: Secret Bribe To Cover The Missing $20bn Oil Money

A credible source at the Nigerian Senate has revealed that members of the Senate Committee on Finance led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi have been offered unspecified amounts of bribe by agents of Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and officials of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to endorse the committee’s interim report on billions of dollars in crude oil sales that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, claimed were never accounted for.

Last week, the 11-member committee prematurely released an interim account that sought to absolve Ms. Alison-Madueke and NNPC officials, who report to her, of blame in the alleged missing funds. The report dismissed Mr. Sanusi’s assertion that the NNPC had failed to remit between $20 billion and $50 billion of Nigeria’s crude oil earnings with the country’s apex bank.

President Jonathan Never Confirmed Withholding Of $10 Billion From Federation Account .

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PRESIDENT JONATHAN NEVER CONFIRMED WITHHOLDING OF $10 BILLION FROM FEDERATION ACCOUNT

Reports in some domestic media today which quoted President Goodluck Jonathan as "confirming" in Amsterdam that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) wrongly withheld $10 Billion from the federation account  are completely false and a total distortion of the President's comments during his meeting with the Nigerian community in the Netherlands.

At no time during the well-attended reception did President Jonathan also confirm any "irregularities" in the NNPC.

Missing $20bn Story Takes New Turn As Jonathan Orders Audit Of NNPC

Lamido Sanusi speaks during the Sir Patrick Gillam lecture about the economic problems of sub-Saharan Africa at the London School of Economics in London, U.K., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.

President Goodluck Jonathan has authorized a forensic audit of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The Presidency said on Wednesday that "reputable international firms" would carry out the audit, but the companies' names were not disclosed.
The decision has followed the calls by the Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and a Senate committee investigating the graft allegations to conduct a forensic audit of NNPC after the Central Bank ex-governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi presented evidence that he said showed the company failed to remit $20bn of oil revenue to federal government coffers.