{"id":7154,"date":"2012-12-06T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2012-12-06T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T12:47:24","slug":"group-demands-explanation-from-diezani-over-link-with-oil-coy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/group-demands-explanation-from-diezani-over-link-with-oil-coy\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Demands Explanation From Diezani Over Link With Oil Coy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Transparency Group-Good Governance Network (GGN) has called for an immediate explanation from the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.Diezani Alison-Madueke over her link with an oil servicing company-West African Ventures (WAV) Limited, in line with the transparent posture of the present administration.<\/p>\n<p>The group expressed concerns over\u00a0\u00a0 the continual use of the minister\u2019s pictures in WAV\u2019s advertorials and her continued silence over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Coordinator of the group, Bamidele Akande, said that \u201cwe have observed overtime the use of the minister\u2019s picture alongside officials of WAV in paid advertorials on the pages of newspapers. The latest of which appeared 0n page 51,The Guardian of Tuesday, December 4, 2012 and\u00a0 page 12H, Thisday of Tuesday, December 4, 2012\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Akande further said that information at the disposal of GGN indicate that officials of WAV which has a subsidiary -Sea Trucks group, allegedly use the name of the minister to intimidate\u00a0 other players in the petroleum industry\u00a0 to secure juicy contracts because of the minister\u2019s\u00a0 perceived link with them.<\/p>\n<p>It added that in line with the posture of the Jonathan\u2019s administration and the code of conduct for public office holders, the minister must come out and clear the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the minister to come out and clear the air on this immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Failure will compel us to invite the relevant security agencies to look into the matter\u201d, the group threatened.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that two ministers in the Jonathan\u2019s administration, Godsday Orubebe of the Ministry of the Niger-Delta Affairs and Emeka Wogu, of the Labour Ministry, are embroiled in corruption scandals.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Transparency Group-Good Governance Network (GGN) has called for an immediate explanation from the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.Diezani Alison-Madueke over her link with an oil servicing company-West African Ventures&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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