{"id":161256,"date":"2025-05-04T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nnpcl-efcc-investigates-mele-kyari-13-others-over-2-9bn-refinery-funds-full-list"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:05:39","slug":"nnpcl-efcc-investigates-mele-kyari-13-others-over-2-9bn-refinery-funds-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnpcl-efcc-investigates-mele-kyari-13-others-over-2-9bn-refinery-funds-full-list","title":{"rendered":"NNPCL: EFCC investigates Mele Kyari, 13 others over $2.9bn refinery funds [FULL LIST]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has commenced investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds and abuse of office by some former senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Former chief executives of the company, Mele Kyari, Abubakar Yar\u2019Adua and others were alleged to have misappropriated about $2.96 billion earmarked for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries.<\/p>\n<p>The development was disclosed in a letter dated 28 April and addressed to the Group Managing Director, NNPC Towers, Herbert Macaulay Way, Central Business District, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the anti-graft agency is specifically investigating the disbursements of $1.56 billion for the Port Harcourt refinery, $740 million for the Kaduna refinery, and $657 million for the Warri refinery.<\/p>\n<p>Those under investigation include:<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar Lawal Yar\u2019Adua<\/p>\n<p>Mele Kolo Kyari<\/p>\n<p>Isiaka Abdulrazak<\/p>\n<p>Umar Ajiyap<\/p>\n<p>Dikko Ahmed<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Onoja<\/p>\n<p>Ademoye Adeniyi Jelili<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha Magaji Sugungun<\/p>\n<p>Kayode Olusegun Adetokunbo<\/p>\n<p>Efiok Michael Akpan<\/p>\n<p>Babatunde Bakare<\/p>\n<p>Jimoh Olasunkanmi<\/p>\n<p>Bello Kankaya<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Inyama<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has commenced investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds and abuse of office by some former senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC Ltd. Former chief executives of the company, Mele Kyari, Abubakar Yar\u2019Adua and others were alleged to have misappropriated about $2.96 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[68,1202,254,9636],"class_list":["post-161256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-efcc","tag-mele-kyari","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpcl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NNPCL: EFCC investigates Mele Kyari, 13 others over $2.9bn refinery funds [FULL LIST] - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nnpcl-efcc-investigates-mele-kyari-13-others-over-2-9bn-refinery-funds-full-list\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NNPCL: EFCC investigates Mele Kyari, 13 others over $2.9bn refinery funds [FULL LIST]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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