Group Stages Protest Over Alleged Theft, Sale Of 48m Barrels Of Crude Oil

A group, under the umbrella of George Uboh Whistle-blowers Network, has staged a protest at the NNPCL Towers in Abuja on Wednesday, demanding the oil company to disclose the whereabouts of 48 million barrels of crude oil allegedly stolen and sold in China under the watch of its group chief executive officer, Mele Kyari.

The group’s chairman, Dr George Uboh, while addressing journalists, said the protesters were poor Nigerians and will not back down until Kyari obeys a subsisting court order and publish, in the public interest, the whereabouts of the proceeds of the sale of the Bonny light crude oil allegedly stolen and stored in China under his watch.

“The court has ordered Mele Kyari to disclose and publish in the public interest the whereabouts of the proceeds of the sale of 48m barrels of Bonny light crude oil stolen in Nigeria and stored in China under the watch of Mele Kyari’s watch.

“Kyari’s flagrant disregard for and playing dear eye to the court order compelling him to act smacks of ‘aristocratic arrogance’. The disease all kleptocrats suffer globally, to the detriment of the suffering masses.

“We will not leave here until Mele Kyari discloses and publishes in the Public interest the whereabouts of the proceeds which at $100 per barrel translates to $4.8b. We shall leave the criminal angle to the law enforcement agencies, given the fact that the court used the term ‘stolen’.

“Mele Kyari must show us where he kept the $4.8b which belongs to all Nigerians in the homeland and in the diaspora,” Uboh stated.