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Fuel Subsidy: Nigeria Paid N287 Billion To Oil Marketers In 2013 – Finance Minister
Nov 16, 2013 – Fuel Subsidy Payment 2013: Nigeria Paid N287 Billion To Oil Marketers In 2013 – Finance Minister
Here is an email Nigeria’s finance Minister sent to Sahara Reporter one hour ago in response to a Fuel Subsidy payment inquiry.
NaijaGists.com was copied on the email so we thought we should give you guys the details:
Read the email sent by Ngozi Okonjo Iweala on how much Nigeria has paid Oil marketers in fuel subsidy this year alone:
Inquiry email from Sahara Reporter:
For the record and in the interest of the Nigerian public which has a right to correct information, I will answer your question.
First, it is important to keep in mind the big picture about the current status of payments to marketers compared to the recent past.
In response to public anger about high payments to marketers in 2011, the Federal Ministry of Finance working under the CME with DMO and PPPRA instituted new processes and procedures to curb fraud and inefficiency. The ministry makes payments based on verified batched claims sent by PPPRA to DMO which verifies them again in a new process put in place before final payment.
As a result, the payments have declined from N2.2 trillion in 2011 to N950 billion in 2012, much of this due to subsidy phase down but a good part also due to better verification processes.
Regarding your specific question, the Federal Ministry of Finance has thus far this year paid N287 billion in verified claims to marketers. The details have been published in our regular updates in the newspapers and magazines.
We are getting ready to make additional payments to marketers. Marketers are also making claims for interest and foreign exchange differentials as provided for in the PPPRA template, which have not been paid, and we are verifying those as well.
As the public has been made aware, no marketer involved in questionable deals is paid. All fraudulent marketers identified by the Aig-Imoukhuede committee had their names published in the media. A few were subsequently sent by the committee to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation and were later cleared based on their defence and a re-examination of the evidence. These joined the list of cleared marketers. The others remain blacklisted.
Lola Maje
November 16, 2013 at 9:42 PM
Madam Ngozi don’t you think this is too much for a year
where do you want to keep this in your record book
You’re paying this much and your people are still living in abject poverty.
From this money, if you decide to pay every citizen welfare monthly, we will still have left over.
Remember you will give account to God one day
Jeremiah
November 16, 2013 at 9:43 PM
Everybody sitting on Nigeria’s wealth will know no peace for the rest on their lives
Osagie
November 16, 2013 at 9:58 PM
Instead of spending this much on subsidy why don’t u guys call off asuu strike first
John Abdul
November 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM
this subsidy payment is unnecessary it’s another embezzlement scheme
This country is under the bondage of corruption
who will deliver us from these monsters called leaders
bezo
November 17, 2013 at 8:23 AM
Ngozi is a bastard, what are this igbo’s turning nigeria into, igbo’s are just too corrupt, may God forget them and their future
Richard
November 17, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Part of any government Minister’s job is to block any loop holes where there is a leak in government revenue. Why will a government as big as Nigeria be selling our major Oil resources through middlemen or cartels if not to create room for corruption. We should be selling our products directly instead of going though middlemen. Even though this has been costing us huge sums of money, yet we stick to it because of selfish gains. The British Prime Minister could not be more right to speak out on behalf of all Nigerians. Thank you to him.