Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), MELE KYARI to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing 825 billion naira meant for refinery rehabilitation.

SERAP also called on MELE KYARI to account for other oil revenues, as documented in the 2021 annual report by the Auditor-General of the Federation, published on Thursday 27 November 2024.

The organisation urged KYARI to identify those suspected to be responsible for the disappeared oil money and hand them over to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

In a letter signed by SERAP deputy director KOLAWOLE OLUWADARE, the group urged the NNPCL Boss to formally invite former president OLUSEGUN OBASANJO to tour Nigeria’s refineries and to extend the invitation to the EFCC and ICPC to monitor the operations of the refineries, and any spending on them, including the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries.