Malta Deals: Kyari Washes Hands Off Dangote’s Allegation

Malta Deals: Kyari Distances Himself From Dangote’s Allegation

The drama between business mogul, Aliko Dangote and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCl may expose those behind the dirty deals in the country’s oil sector.

Dangote, while addressing a press conference accused some people of the NNPCL of blending crude oil in the Malta, a European country to the detriment of an indigenous refinery.

He said he was ready to spill the beans and name those behind the deals soon. Dangote also narrated how some strangers has been looking for him, adding that he is not afraid of anybody and would face them headlong.

However, the NNPC Chief Executive Mele Kyari has reacted to Dangote’s claim, exonerating himself of the allegations.

He said, “I am inundated by enquiries from family members, friends and associates on the public declaration by the President of Dangote Group that some NNPC workers have established a blending plant in Malta thereby impeding procurements from local production of Petroleum products.

“To clarify the allegations regarding blending plant, I do not own or operate any business directly or by proxy anywhere in the world with the exception of a local mini Agric venture. Neither am I aware of any employee of the NNPC, that owns or operates a blending plant in Malta or anywhere else in the world.

“A blending plant in Malta or any part of the world has no influence over NNPC’s business operations and strategic actions.

“For further assurance, our compliance sanction grid shall apply to any NNPC employee who is established to be involved in doing so if availed and I strongly recommend that such individuals be declared public and be made known to relevant government security agencies for necessary actions in view of the grave implications for national energy security.”