‘NAPIMS never spent $9m on staff transfer’

From Uche Usim, Abuja

The National Petroleum Investment and Management Services (NAPIMS), a corporate services unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said that it did not spend $9 million on staff transfer neither did it commit $2 million to vehicles maintenance only.
The company, in a statement signed by the spokesman of the NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu, said the $9 million was reported to have been spent on staff transfers alone during a submission on the NAPIMS 2016 budget performance to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream.
He said the amount actually consisted of appropriated items on pension fund, retirement benefit and staff transfers/redeployment.
“Similarly, the $2 million purportedly spent on vehicles maintenance, comprised budget items, which included light vehicle maintenance (3rd parties and in-house); light motor vehicle for operation, fueling; and heavy motor vehicle maintenance (3rd parties and in-house).
“NAPIMS also clarifies that it was erroneous to say that NAPIMS’s General Manager, Joint Venture Oil Operations, Mrs. Catherine Iheme, made the presentation to the Senate Committee as contained in some media reports of the event, as she was indeed absent at the Senate hearing.
“For the avoidance of doubt, NAPIMS, as a corporate services unit of the NNPC, maintains the corporation’s core values of integrity, transparency and accountability, with all its activities directed at adding value to the hydrocarbon resources of the country for the benefit of all Nigerians and other stakeholders in the industry,” he said.

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