The federal government has denied that there are plans to sell the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Limited, NLNG.

This fact came to light on Tuesday as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu debunked the allegation during an investigative hearing on three motions by the Fred Agbedi- headed House of Representatives committee on Gas Resources and Allied Matters. The minister was represented by Mrs. Esther Ifejika, director Gas Resources. The Director was emphatic when she was questioned by the committee members on the alleged plan to sell the NLNG.

However, Ifejika who said the presentation of the Ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation were harmonized could not proceed further at the hearing as the committee discovered glaring discrepancies in the documents of the Ministry and that of NNPC presented by Bello Rabiu, Chief Operating Officer, Upstream who represented the Group Managing Director, Baru Maikanti.

Source: The Nation