Organised Labour on Thursday demanded the probe of the Ministers of Finance and Petroleum Resources and their aides who presided over the controversial handling of the subsidy funds.
The Nigeria Labour Congress said the ministers and their aides must not be spared in order to ensure equity and justice.
In a statement on Thursday by its acting General Secretary, Owei Lakemfa, the NLC decried the looting of the nation’s funds through the subsidy era, saying there is the need to probe the “criminal looting of the nation’s resources.
“Some of the findings of the House Report show clear indication of criminality.
“Therefore, it is not enough for private and public organisations like the NNPC and PPPRA to be asked to make refunds. The Government has a duty to bring the officers of such organisations and their supervisors to justice.
“We also hold that the Ministers in the Finance and Petroleum Ministries and their lieutenants under whose watch the NNPC made unconstitutional deductions from the country’s oil income before dumping the balance in the Federation account, should be investigated for culpability.
“For the NLC, the Report is a mere tip of the iceberg.
“There is the need for further investigations. For instance, the recommendation that the Executive Secretaries of the PPPRA from 2009 to date be probed does not go far enough. There is the need to probe the entire oil industry from the inception of civil rule after the military regimes had departed.”