12th June 2026, NewsOrient, Law And Society, Governance And Development, Business And Economy, News

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has ordered the arrest of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, for failing to appear before it over allegations of N210 trillion unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2023 when he was the organisations CEO.

According to the Senate Committee, “the directive followed Kyari’s repeated absence from an investigative hearing, probing queries raised by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) over the company’s financial records during the period under review.”

But a former Chief Financial Officer of the NNPCL, Umar Ajiya Isa, has challenged the allegations before the committee, arguing that no funds were missing. Isa went further to describe the N210 trillion figure as “misleading when compared with the company’s actual earnings within the period.”

The challenge notwithstanding, the Senate Committee issued the arrest warrant following lawmakers’ agreement not to further tolerate delay in the crucial investigation.

After a long deliberation on the matter, a voice vote indicated overwhelming support for Kyari’s arrest if he continues to evade attendance of the Senate Committee’s probe.

As a result of the resolve, the chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe North), ruled that Kyari should be arrested and produced before the panel.

‘Anywhere Mele Kyari is, he should be arrested and brought before this committee’, he ruled.

NewsOrient recalls that the root cause of the controversy is the alleged missing N210 trillion said to be unaccounted for within the NNPC Limited accounts.

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