Nigeria

A coalition of civil society organisations, Publish What You pay (PWYP), has promised to recover the N5 billion allegedly missing from some banks from 1999 to 2005.

An audit by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Initiatives (NEITI) between 1999 and 2004 revealed that the amount covered was taxes and royalties from the oil and gas companies paid into some banks.

The group called for the disclosure of the payments to governments.

Publish What You Pay Nigeria, a non-governmental organization, NGO, has charged the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, to institute greater transparency and accountability for revenues and payments from the extractive sector.

In a statement made available to Vanguard, and signed by the National Coordinator, Ms Faith Nwadishi, the NGO said it has made some recommendations on the way forward after it looked at the gains and loopholes of the current system.

She said her organisation expected NEITI to expose the corruption and ills within the extractive sector in

Communiqué issued at the end of a civil society mission to Ghana on the extractive sector

Accra – Ghana

Sunday July 17 – Friday July 22, 2011

Introduction

A five-member Civil Society delegation undertook an Advocacy and experience-sharing visit to Ghana from July 17 to July 22, 2011, during which they met with a variety of stakeholders actively involved in promoting Extractive Transparency in Ghana.

Undertaken under the auspices of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) with support from Oxfam Novib, the delegation met with senior government officials,

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) et Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Nigéria, deux organismes qui travaillent dans le champ des Industries Extractives, effectue une visite de travail à leurs homologues du ROTAB au Niger du 12 au 15 juin 2011.

L’objectif de cette visite est celui de voir naître un cadre législatif solide dans le champ des industries extractives qui constitue pour nos deux (2) pays un élément clé permettant de prévenir l’apparition de la malédiction des ressources.

Niamey, 14 June 2011: There is no doubt a sound legal framework in the management of natural resources revenue is fundamental to avoiding the resource curse.

Abuja 27, June 2011: The Publish What You Pay Nigeria Coalition and Zero Corruption Coalition are pro transparency, accountability and anti-corruption civil society organisations.

As believers in the fact that the sole essence of governance is the welfare and security of the people we align ourselves with the position of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on subsidies on petroleum products in Nigeria.

While we are fully aware of the “kleptocracy” in the downstream of the nation’s oils and gas sector, the fact remains that the removal of the so called subsidy in th

Abuja, 8 February, 2011: In furtherance of our earlier statement on the over N5 billion trapped oil and gas revenues in consolidated/collapsed banks as revealed by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Audit report for 1999-2004, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Nigeria and Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC), once again use this medium to reveal to the Nigerian people the identity of the existing banks that merged with some of the banks which at the point of consolidation were in possession of the trapped oil and gas revenue.

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Publish What You Pay (Nigeria) PWYP has joined the league of stakeholders in drawing attention to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Audit Report, 2005 and other activities of the NEITI Secretariat.

PWYP’s round table, tagged CSOs Review Meeting on Shadow Report on the 2005 Audit Report which attracted stakeholders as well as other civil society groups, including the media to the Peace Haven Hotel, in Wuye District of Abuja last week did not only expose the feelings of stakeholders on the 2005 Audit Report as the shadow report was presented, general comments on the activities of the extractive sector, the NEITI Secretariat and the CSO/Media expectation of the industry was brought to the fore.

Civil society groups have suggested that issues bothering on extractives resources should be put in the front burner of the 2011 elections, since extractives account for more than 90 percent the country’s national income.

Making the suggestion yesterday in Benin City at a town hall meeting on Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and 2011 elections, a leader of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CILAC), Innocent Adjenuhure, called for strategies that would help ensure that politicians, political parties and the electorate regard Transparency Initiative as critical election issue that must be addressed by them as a necessity.