The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) over the “failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing USD$2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.

According to SERAP, the suit followed the allegations documented in the recently published 2020 audited report by the Auditor General of the Federation that the NNPC failed to remit the money into the Federation Account, saying that the money may have been diverted.

The Deputy Director of SERAP, Kolawole Oluwadare, disclosed this in a statement which was made available to Journalists on Sunday.

In the suit number filed last Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, SERAP is seeking an order of mandamus to direct and compel the NNPC to account for and explain the whereabouts of the missing oil revenues, as documented in a report by the Auditor-General.