NNPC Goes After Benny Peters Aiteo, Walter Wagbatsoma’s Ontario To Recover $25m Debt From Fraudulent Crude Oil Allocation



The Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Baru, has set machinery in motion to recover the sum of $25,000,000.00 million as unpaid debts from fraudulent crude oil allocations to two Nigerian oil marketing companies.

The companies are Aiteo owned by Mr. Ben Peters and Ontario owned by the jailed Walter Wagbatsoma.

Baru, our correspondent gathered has been told by President Muhammad Buhari to recover every penny owned the Corporation by local and foreign oil firms using every available means.

A top Presidency source told
our correspondent, on the condition of anonymity that the companies capitalised on their closeness to the former embattled minister of petroleum resources Mrs. Dieziani Allison-Madueke to fraudulently get crude oil allocations from Duke Oil, a subsidiary of the NNPC, without paying for the products they lifted.

“Sadly, this impunity brought Duke Oil to its kneels. The company was financially brought down and for so many years the company was not functioning because Aiteo and Ontario took over Duke Oil without any challenge from anybody in government. So the NNPC has been mandated to recover every penny from the owners of the companies using any means. What they did is unacceptable and they must repay the money they are owing the government,” the source said.

The source stated further that Duke Oil would have completely been liquidated if the former minister was still in government adding that during the last regime in the oil and gas sector the level of impunity was alarming.


“Where else in the world can a company lift crude oil meant for a government subsidiary and yet refuse to pay? Its unheard of but these companies with the help of their sponsors fraudulently lifted crude oil and refused to pay. So, the time has come for them to pay all that they own NNPC and we are going to use everything within our powers to get the money from them. They can run to anywhere in the world, we will make them pay that money,” the source who was bitterly angry told our correspondent.

Our correspondents investigations revealed that the companies on the orders of top officials of the past administration  connived with some key NNPC officials to lift crude oil allocations from Duke Oil without payment within the period under review.

Investigations showed that in 2012 Aiteo was allocated crude valued at $4,897,245.63 million while in 2013 and 2014, the company got crude oil valued at $6,528,298.08 million and $6,535,269.82 million respectively without paying a dime for the products.

The total amount of money owned by Aiteo, as at the time of filing this report  is$17,960,813.53 million with a current interest of $1,326,737.37 million  as at February 2016.

The embattled Ontario Oil and Gas Limited, our correspondent’s investigations revealed lifted products worth $6,271,682.95 million from Duke Oil only in 2014. Interest as at the end of February 2016 only attracted $329,514.54.

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