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NNPC Should be Disbanded – Sanusi

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Tapre Timine
Published: June 15, 2025
Last updated: June 15, 2025
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A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, on Saturday, asked that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited be “unbundled” and
“disbanded.”

Sanusi said this during the ceremony of the 7th edition of the Kaduna Investment Summit (KADinvest 7.0) held by the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency.

The deposed Emir of Kano spoke on the topic: “Improving subnational resilience against global economic shocks” as the keynote speaker at the event.

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The 14th Emir of Kano and the governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, were among those calling for the scrapping of the NNPC following its abysmal performance over the years.

He argued that the national oil ought to be better but unfortunately, it has become a money pit rather than a cash cow.

According to him, the four refineries that were almost comatose and not satisfying the desires of the Nigerians should hence be unbundled and disbanded.

He said:

“NNPC is a money pit instead of a cash cow; it should be unbundled and disbanded. More can be had from simply levying royalties and CIT on private players following models like Petronas and Petrobras.

“Beyond the challenging global context, Nigeria has problems entirely of its own making where oil revenues which were once the lifeblood of the Federal Government, have been in secular decline for over a decade. This has been happening regardless of the oil price environment.

“In some ways, Nigeria’s problems are not a failure of the system because it is working as one would expect, but a loss of design and a failure of implementation.

“In the current environment, the first and most obvious problem is the existence of the fuel subsidy and opportunities this creates for fraud, the average daily fuel consumption in Nigeria (by the NNPC’s admission) is 66 million litres per day, and on some days as high as 100 million litres per day. This is roughly equivalent to where Indonesia (2019), a country with nearly three times Nigeria’s GDP per capita, two times the number of vehicles and 2.5 times the size of the road network.

“A different way to benchmark Nigeria’s consumption is to look at PMS consumed by each vehicle on a daily basis, on this metric, Nigeria even outranks Iran, a country with three to four times its level of wealth and a road network that is three times the size on a per capita basis and this is not just the impact of subsidies because in Iran official fuel price are 5 US cents per litre, less than 15 per cent of the pump price in Nigeria.”

Sanusi added that the steady rise in the US dollar as being the bigger problem in most of Africa.

It has, according to him, caused widespread and painful currency adjustment, which is a more important force of inflation than the underlying moves in stock prices.

He again said:

“Since the start of the Ukraine war, crude oil prices are 5 per cent lower, rice prices are 12 per cent higher, and wheat prices are flat, the trade-weighted US dollar however is 17 per cent stronger in this period, the sharpest upward move since the early 1980s, this is what is causing the pain in emerging markets.”

The ex-governor disclosed that only 50 per cent of states generated enough recurring revenue to cover wages, overheads, and debt service.

The ex-CBN governor hence advised that states advocate for changes that are not on fixing failures of system design and policy implementation at the Federal level.

Furthermore, he admonished states on the need to find ways to free themselves from the effects of leakages and unnatural policies at the Federal level.

He said:

“Instead of pushing for a revised revenue sharing formula, they need to push
for new and independent powers of taxation.

He praised the successful execution of the Treasury Single Account, saying that “this is an area where Kaduna, in particular, has shown leadership.

“Research by BudgIT shows that it is the only state to have met the World Bank State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability scoring criteria for two years in a row. This includes running a function TSA that covers more than 80 per cent of revenues.”

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