THE House of Representatives on Wednesday make case for subsidy payment in the 2018 appropriation bill for the petroleum product. THE House of Representativesmake case for subsidy payment in the 2018 appropriation bill for the petroleum product. The House also resolved that the current Federal Executive should make provision for subsidy payment in the 2018 appropriation bill, should it deem it fit to continue subsidy payment under any guise whatsoever. The House resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Honourable Karimi Sunday , “urgent need to investigate the fuel subsidy payment by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC”. In his lead debate, Hon Karimi said between January to December the Federal Government through the NNPC claimed to have spent over N300billion on payment of subsidy for PMS, when there was no provision for subsidy payment in the 2017 Appropriation Act.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 17, 2018 15:11 UTC