Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it planned to deduct another N114.2 billion from its June remittance to the Federation Account and Allocation Committee (FAAC) in July.
The proposed amount would be used to pay for fuel subsidy, according to the NNPC’s presentation to the committee between June 22 and 23.
A document made available to reporters by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning highlighted the NNPC’s presentation to the committee.
The corporation said it continued to carry the burden of the underpriced sales of premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol.
The presentation, signed by Bello Abdullahi, on behalf of the NNPC’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Umar Ajiya, showed that N50 billion, which is part of the corporation’s financial obligations to its Joint Venture (JV) partners, which is meant to have been subtracted from the latest round of deductions remains pending.
According to the document: “The sum of N126,298,457,944.36 was deducted as value shortfall resulting from the difference between the landing cost and ex-coastal price of PMS (petrol) recorded in April 2021.
“In addition, May value shortfall of N114,337,097,352.49 is to be deducted from June federation proceeds in July 2021 FAAC meeting. Also, the balance of March 2021 value shortfall of N50,000,000,000.00 remains outstanding.”
The NNPC remitted a marginal net sum of N29.647 billion to FAAC in May, which was shared in June, as opposed to its zero contribution in April, its N90.860 billion in January, N64.161 billion in February and N41.184 billion in March.
The document said that the NNPC had, to date, been able to contribute a net sum of N225.852 billion to the federation for the year, out of its yearly projected remittance of N1.473 trillion and monthly value addition of N122.7 billion, leaving a variance of N820.684 billion.
NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, had recently stated that with the current exchange rate, the pump price of petrol should be N256 per litre.
Read him: “I know that so much work is going on, and then we have to manage the volume that we are exposed to between this price of N162 and N256.
“The difference comes back to as much as N140 billion to N150 billion cost to the country monthly.”
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