PWYP Engagement with covered entities towards the remediation of NEITI Report Findings

In a bid to implement the global EITI requirement, NEITI audit reports clearly points out remediation issues that will impact policies, legislation and operational procedures if adequately addressed. PWYP Nigeria believes that if the remediation is adequately addressed, there will be a great improvement in the Nigeria’s Extractive sector. NEITI findings highlight key issues of which some have been since 1999 relating to different agencies and these issues have continually remained in subsequent audit reports, thus the need to adequately carry out advocacy on the remedial issues and engage the stakeholders or companies who have continually showed lapses in the data or operational reports supplied in the audit reports.  This was the basis for the engagement.

Some of these covered entities includes NNPC, DPR, PPPRA, FIRS, NAOC, MOBIL/ESSO, WALTERSMITH, SHELL, SNEPCO, PLATFORM, ORIENTAL ENERGY, PILLAR OIL, NIMASA, and CBN. It is however sad to say that some of these companies or agencies did not turn up for the meeting.

NEITI audit reports, clearly point out remediation issues that will impact policies, legislation, and operational procedures that will check corruption in the extractive sector if adequately implemented.

Over the years, the Nigerian government and the covered entities has shown slow or little compliance to the remedial issues. Civil society, citizens and the media seem to have experimented several ways to bring about remediation but the result has not been very successful. It is to this end that Publish What You Pay Nigeria resorted to engaging some of these covered entities to advocate for remediation of the NEITI Audit reports.