By Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja
As the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited continues to find the best ways of handling the issue of contaminated Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with higher concentrates of methanol imported into the country few days ago, one of the companies named in the importation saga, Emadeb Energy Services Limited
has denied involvement.
To show its innocence in the saga, the company has vowed to give its full and maximum cooperation to any government investigation panel and or any agency with all the relevant documentation and or information that maybe required.
This explanation was made in a letter issued and signed yesterday by the Lead Consortium to Emadeb Energy Services Limited, a copy of which was obtained the Peoples Daily newspaper in Abuja.
The letter explained that the said importation of the contaminated PMS was executed by Britanica-U, member of the Hyde/Ay Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium as a result of its unwillingness to co-operate or share information and documents with the other Consortium members.
The letter by the lead consortium, Emadeb Energy Services Limited, reads in part, “We refer to the press release of February 9, 2022 by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited on the issue of contaminated Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with higher concentrates of methanol allegedly imported by Emadeb/Hyde/Ay Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium.
“We hereby state that the said importation of the contaminated PMS was executed by a member of the consortium, to wit: Brittania-U.
“Therefore, the blanket claims made against the consortium by the NNPC are misleading and contradict the actual events that happened; they do not fully reflect and/or represent what transpired. “It is important to inform the public of these facts and provide clarifications relating to the delivery of the said contaminated PMS to the country.
“We also deem it necessary to protect our image as we have invested a lot in building our respective brands in the industry”, said.
Continuing, the letter said “Following the repeated refusal of Brittania-U to work with the Consortium, Brittania-U indemnified the other consortium members – ‘’Emadeb/Hyde/Ay Maikifi’’ and the resulting agreement was executed by their company on June 16, 2021.
“The Indemnity clause contained in the aforementioned agreement covers “Emadeb/Hyde/Ay Maikifi’’ against all damages, losses, costs, expenses (including reasonable legal costs, expenses and attorneys’ fees) and liabilities incident to claims, demands or causes of action brought by or on behalf of any person or entity, which claims, demands or causes of action arise out of, are incident to or result from the performance of or failure to perform the Project.
“The indemnity also covers Shortages in delivery of products, late deliveries, delivery of off-spec cargo or other wrongful performance of their obligations in the DSDP agreement.
“EMADEB/HYDE/AY MAIKIFI via a letter dated December 10, 2021 informed NNPC of non-receipt of information from Brittania-U on all correspondence relating to the DSDP crude cargo allocated to them. We further stated that Brittania-U’s action contradicts all efforts to ensure performance on her allotted crude cargo.
“In view of the notice of the contaminated product, EMADEB/HYDE/AY MAIKIFI immediately notified Brittania-U via a letter dated February 3, 2022 and also expressly informed NNPC of the sole liability of Brittania U.”
