Revealed! Nigeria Has No Records Of Oil Exports Under Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari[/caption]
The Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, on Monday, revealed that the country has no record of its oil and non-oil exports from June 2015 till date.
The ministry made the revelation during a public hearing on export and non-export activities at the senate.
The Deputy Director in the ministry, Usman Ndanusa, who represented the minister at the hearing said the country had since June 2015 been exporting its oil and non-oil products without measurement and documentation.
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He said that the development followed the disengagement of pre-shipment inspection agents at the various export terminals in the country and their subsequent replacement with agents who were merely asked by the federal government without legal and constitutional backing to carry out the pre-shipment work at the terminals.
Ndanusa insisted that since their engagements had no backing in law coupled with the fact that the Monitoring and Evaluation Agents being the federal government’s workers expected to monitor the activities of the pre-shipment inspection agents, were not working over non-payment of entitlements, there was no one to undertake the supervision of the agents.
The development, he noted, left the country at the mercy of the agents, adding that the country had no control of measurement of its oil and non-oil export commodities.
