₦210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem, By Mahmud Nasir Jafar
This was the pattern that greeted the claim that ₦210 trillion had gone missing from the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited – a figure roughly four times the size of the national budget, tossed around like a stale pancake until it arrived, unexamined, at a Senate committee hearing.
Watching Wunti take a Senate committee through receivables, payables, subsidiary consolidation and the post-Petroleum Industry Act architecture, without condescension and without evasion, I thought about how rare that combination has become in our public life.
What the Senate owes the public now is a reconciliation conducted on the record, following the documents wherever they lead, insulated from political pressure in either direction, and concluded with a finding ordinary citizens can read.
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