2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by TheRareGem1(f): 5:23am On Jan 27, 2022 |
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has presented a bill of N3 trillion to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as what is required for 2022 following the decision to extend the payment of petroleum subsidy.
The FEC presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Wednesday, considered the request to make additional funding provisions to enable the government to meet incremental fuel subsidy payment in the 2022 budget.
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, who revealed this during the post-FEC briefing, recalled that only N443 billion is presently available in the 2022 budget meant to accommodate subsidy from January to June.
She said with the realities on the ground including the present hardship faced by Nigerians and the lack of structures to support subsidy removal, the NNPC made a request for N3 trillion from the Ministry of Finance for 2022.
Mrs Ahmed explained: “We also presented to Council today a request for Council’s consideration to make additional funding provisions to enable us to meet incremental fuel subsidy request in the 2022 Budget. You’ll recall that in the 2022 Budget, as appropriated, we have made a provision of N443 billion for a subsidy for January to June.
Having taken into account the current realities; increased hardship in the population, heightened inflation, and also that the measures that needed to be taken to enable a smoother exit from the fuel subsidy are not yet in place, it was agreed by Council that it is desirable to exit fuel subsidy.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has presented to the ministry a request for N3 trillion as fuel subsidy for 2022. What this means is that we have to make an incremental provision of N2.557 trillion to be able to meet the subsidy requirement, which is averaging about N270 billion per month.
“In 2021, the actual under-recovery that has been charged to the Federation was N1.2 trillion, which means an average of N100 billion, but in 2022, because of the increased crude oil price per barrel in the global market, now at $80 per barrel, and also because an NNPC’s assessment is that the country is consuming 65.7 million litres per day, now we’ll end up with the incremental cost of N3 trillion in 2022.
She said the request was considered by Council, which directed the ministry to approach the National Assembly for an amendment to the fiscal framework as well as the budget.
“So, this has been considered by Council and we’ve also been asked to approach the National Assembly for an amendment to the fiscal framework as well as the Budget, to also further discuss with NNPC on how to make provisions for this and also how to rationalise this expenditure,” Minister added.
She also revealed that the council has approved an amendment to be transmitted to the National Assembly to repeal clauses 10 and 11 concerning the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) operations in the 2022 budget and as well restore what the lawmakers had deleted amounting to N103 billion.
According to her, the amendment stemmed from President Buhari’s complaint about the tinkering done to the budget by the legislature, which may hamper the original plans of the Executive.
The minister further explained: “The second memo we presented to Council today has to do with a request for approval of the 2022 Appropriation Amendment. If you recall, when the President signed the 2022 Appropriation into law on the 31st of December, he had raised some concerns that he had in some of the provisions in the budget and had indicated that he will be submitting an amendment proposal to the National Assembly for them to effect improvements in what has been done to the budget.
“So, today Council took that amendment proposal and I just want to report that part of the requests that Council has approved today is for the National Assembly to repeal clauses 10 and 11. Clause 10 is referring to a provision that has been made that will enable the EFCC and NFIU be able to take 10% of whatever collections that they recover.
We’re asking for that to be repealed because this is in direct contrast to the Acts of these two agencies and also it is in contravention of the Fiscal Responsibility Act and the Finance Act 2021.
Clause 11, on the other hand, is a provision that has been made that says that the Nigeria embassies and missions are now authorized by this Appropriation Act to expend funds allocated to them under Capital Components without the need to seek approval of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“This again, in a view, and Council agreed, is inconsistent with financial regulations and also inconsistent with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. So, we are asking for this to be repealed.
On the changes made in the 2022 budget, which FEC now wants reversed, Mrs Ahmed stated: “Council also approved that some of the changes that were made in the Appropriation Act, totalling N103 billion, should be restored and examples of these are N22 billion that was provided for sinking fund to mature bonds that will be ready for payment in 2022 in the Nigerian domestic market, and also N12 billion for counterpart funding that is required for the various rail projects and N189 million to be adjusted also in the budgets of the Ministry of Transport, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Head of Service
These are projects that are provided in these ministries that are completely unrelated to their mandate. So, implementation will be a problem.
“Also, N5 billion to be restored for non-regular allowances of the Nigerian Navy, N15 billion to be restored for the regular allowances of the police formations and police commands and several others that Council looked at in detail.
The minister also spoke on another memo on the confirmation of ratification of the Customs Mutual Administrative Assistance Agreement between South Africa and Nigeria.
She said the purpose of the customs law in the respective territories to be properly observed to prevent smuggling and also enhance investigation and combat customs offences.
She explained that the agreement will afford either country mutual assistance in cases concerning the delivery of documents regarding the application of customs laws in two countries.
The importance of this for us is cooperation between Nigeria and South Africa, as it has become even more important now with the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement. It will also help to increase trade relations between the two countries and facilitate the exchange of information as well as strengthen our binational cooperation,” she added. https://tribuneonlineng.com/2022-nnpc-presents-n3trn-subsidy-bill-to-fec/?
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Totilopussylick(m): 5:33am On Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by socialmediaman: 6:06am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Buhari is good at what he does, if you don’t gerrit fogerraboutit ![](https://i1.wp.com/adelove.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/bubu-eco.jpg?fit=595%2C441) 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Nobody: 6:12am On Jan 27, 2022 |
The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year. Thus the cost of subsidy would rise. The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap Modifed A s oil prices go up, the cost of producing fuel goes up...meaning that we end up spending more on subsidizing fuel. At the time we raised fuel to N165, it cost N180 to land one liter of fuel. Now it is N260. And rising. The difference between that N162 government price and the 'landing' price is what government pays in subsidy. And as you can see, costs are rising....because the production cost is rising. Also, smuggling, stealing and so on are there. Removing subsides while bringing about high prices, would end the corruption and smuggling and encourage domestic refining of fuel, ending importation of fuel Modifed Landing cost as at today is N282 nairaLast year June it was N232 naira. Above per liter. In 2018 it was N180 per liter by September of that year. In 2012, it was N99 per liter, in January See what I mean. 5 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by bcomputer101: 7:21am On Jan 27, 2022 |
NNPC? Most useless organization after Nigeria police force 11 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by blessingtimpk: 7:22am On Jan 27, 2022 |
It is NASS job to approve any spending by executive though
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Investorozay: 8:00am On Jan 27, 2022 |
3 trillion Men dem dey thief money for naija oh the way estates sell out fast in lag ehn ![shocked](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/shocked.gif) 5 Likes |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by CelestineNelson: 8:00am On Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by thundafire: 8:01am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Why can't we just put into good use PORTHARCOURT refinery and the one in Delta state and save us this stress. We just have greedy leaders, middlemen and citizens 19 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Judolisco(m): 8:01am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Make dem remove am Na make everywhere scatter.. |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Skoonheid(f): 8:02am On Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by everythinggirly(f): 8:02am On Jan 27, 2022 |
There's money in Nigeria! |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Judolisco(m): 8:02am On Jan 27, 2022 |
thundafire: Why can't we just put into good use PORTHARCOURT refinery and the one in Delta state and save us this stress. We just have greedy leaders, middlemen and citizens I can't believe people sat down and sited a refinery in kaduna 10 Likes 1 Share |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by tutudesz: 8:03am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Ladies and gentlemen, APC retirement trust fund ![undecided](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/undecided.png) N443 billion for subsidy from January to June, abeg 443 billion for 6 months + another 443 billion = 886 billion, why una need 3 trillion ![](/faces/huh.png) 14 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Houseofglam7(f): 8:04am On Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Nahunger(m): 8:04am On Jan 27, 2022 |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by tmtech: 8:05am On Jan 27, 2022 |
NNPC should be broken into pieces ... 1 Like |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Razy75g: 8:05am On Jan 27, 2022 |
These Head slamming abokis are thieves. Parasites 3 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Zico5(m): 8:05am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Let them kuku remove it make everything scatter. Awon werey. They don't love masses. All they think about is themselves and their families. 1 Like |
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Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by PEREZPERECTUS: 8:06am On Jan 27, 2022 |
backbencher: The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple
It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year.
Thus the cost of subsidy would rise.
The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel
There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap if fuel subsidy must go, then refineries must be functional. After all, that is what promised before coming on board 5 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by nelszx: 8:07am On Jan 27, 2022 |
backbencher: The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple
It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year.
Thus the cost of subsidy would rise.
The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel
There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap When the standard of living is relatively okay (keyword: relatively). There are basic amenities primarily power and good roads. If people dont spend to power their households anylonger, then removing the subsidies will be called for. But now, Nigerians are powering so much with little pay don't you think its unwise to remove subsidy now. If it's only car I'm powering, it can be removed. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Otuegbe: 8:08am On Jan 27, 2022 |
backbencher: The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple
It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year.
Thus the cost of subsidy would rise.
The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel
There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap ![smiley](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/smiley.png) |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by LegitAirdrop: 8:08am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Tell me more. backbencher: The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple
It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year.
Thus the cost of subsidy would rise.
The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel
There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by israelmao(m): 8:09am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Maybe this is the fraud Buhari was talking about when he was not at the corridor of power.Why is he now part of the fraud? 3 Likes |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by Racoon(m): 8:09am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Scammers and fraudsters. 1 Like |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by LegitAirdrop: 8:09am On Jan 27, 2022 |
What is the effect of this subsidy postponement? backbencher: The reason why NNPC has such a high subsidy bill is simple
It anticipates that the cost of producing one liter of fuel would rise higher than the 163 naira cost price set by goverment this year.
Thus the cost of subsidy would rise.
The rise is aggravated by the fact that the value of the naira is also falling due to the fact that we spend a lot of Forex on subsidies and importing fuel
There is a reason why subsidy must go. We cannot waste trillions of money keeping fuel cheap |
Re: 2022: NNPC Presents N3trn Subsidy Bill To FEC by gambia(m): 8:10am On Jan 27, 2022 |
Another Big cash out loading. 1 Like |