A destroyed refinery By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited( NNPCL) says it has destroyed 134 illegal refineries in the last few weeks. Also, the company said 63 illegal pipeline connections were uncovered during the the weeks . The corporation, In a visual report, stated that at about 2 am on Sunday, a joint team of security agents discovered a large wooden boat illicitly loading stolen crude oil from Barge AGS01 within the OML 18 operating area, noted intelligence report a large wooden wooden boat was caught receiving crude oil from the barge. According to the state-owned oil firm, while the barge was towed away with a tugboat in custody, five speedboats used in towing the large wooden boat to the illegal loading site were also detained and the particulars of the tugboats and barge used for the operation were reportedly seized for further investigation. It further said that two large boats, which involve
By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade
Barely few days after his bail from Kuje Correctional Center, the immediate past Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has described his arrest and subsequent detention by the Federal Government as malicious and falsely made.
In his reactions to the publications released by the Punch Newspaper and Premium Times online news platforms, the ex- CBN's helsman said a certain report credited to Punch and Premium News and prepared by a Mr. Jim Obazee, who was appointed by the President as a private investigator was false.
Emefiele said: " I have gone through the publications, and I say boldly that the contents of the said publications are false, misleading and calculated to disparage my person, injure my character and to serve the selfish interest of the private investigator".
He said that his lawyers, due to the fact the matter has been submitted to the court for adjudication advised him not to speak on the issue for now.
He, however, said that the need to address some of the issues raised in the publication which are barefaced lies told by the investigator in order to achieve his satanic agenda, forced him to speak.
According to Emefiele, there was no presidential approval for the Naira design contrary to the provision of the CBN Act 2007..
"I wish to state unequivocally that there was indeed a presidential approval, and the said approval was handed over to the same Jim Obazee during the process of his investigation in the presence of senior CBN officials and his own investigator.
Continuing further, Emefiele said the report, which also claimed that the sum of 6.23 million dollars was withdrawn from the CBN vault based on a false presidential directive bearing the signature of the former president Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, and that of the former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha was not true
He, however, said that his lawyers have been informed to ensure that his names are cleared from all the documents issued by the Jim Obazee and his team of investigators, stating he has no knowledge of the directive attributed to the former president and the Secretary General of the Federation.
Emefiele added that he was seeing the documents used in maligning his character for the first time, noting that he has challenged Obazee to publish the said documents and also the statements that he made to them.
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