Under the auspices of the George Uboh Whistle-blowers Network, a group protested on Wednesday at the NNPCL Towers in Abuja, demanding that the oil company reveal the location of 48 million barrels of crude oil that were purportedly stolen and sold in China while Mele Kyari, the company's group chief executive officer, was in charge.
Dr. George Uboh, the group's chairman, told reporters that the demonstrators were poor Nigerians and that they would not give up until Kyari complied with an ongoing court order and disclosed the location of the money from the sale of the Bonny light crude oil that was purportedly stolen and kept in China while he was in charge.
“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.
