The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachiukwu, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari to complain about his humiliation in the hands of the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru. Dr. Kachiukwu also informed the President of Dr. Baru’s penchant for sidestepping due process in running the NNPC. The complaints of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources were contained in a memo addressed to President Buhari and obtained by SaharaReporters.

Dated 30 August and titled “Matters of Insubordination and Lack of Adherence To Due Process Perpetuated by GMD NNPC-Dr. Baru, the memo (HMS/MPR/001/Vol.1/100) opened with a complaint by Dr. Kachiukwu’s complaint to the President about postings within the corporation done without his knowledge.

“Mr. President, yesterday, like many other Nigerians, I resumed work confronted by many changes within NNPC. Like many reorganization and reposting are done since Dr. Baru resumed as GMD, I was never given the opportunity before the announcements to discuss these appointments. This is so despite being Minister of State Petroleum and Chairman, NNPC Board,” Dr. Kachiukwu wrote.

The Minister of State (Petroleum Resources) also complained that the NNPC Board, which has met monthly since inauguration by the President, was never briefed of the postings and appointments. The Board, he added, has statutory duty to review the appointments. Its members, said Dr. Kachiukwu, got to know of the appointments via the social media and NNPC press release.

“At a minimum and like other parastatals supervised by me at the Ministry have continued to do and in compliance with proper governance standards expected of a multinational oil sector organization,” Dr. Kachiukwu stated.

He added that he came into the job with a lot of desire to make positive changes and has succeeded in making some of the envisaged transformation. However, he claimed that he would have been more successful, but for the alleged misbehavior by Dr. Baru.

“I have been on a race to stabilize and move the industry to the next phase. Timing is critical. The sector is also in a critical state where only innovative ideas can stop the alarming impact of the fall of oil prices on national income. The innovations that we have developed and started implementing in the downstream, upstream, policy generation and Niger Delta security have enabled the sector to aggressively pursue out of the box ideas of rejuvenating this sector, getting the best yield and increasing our earnings from Oil and Gas. What this means is that parastatals in the Ministry and all CEOs of these parastatals must be aligned with the policy drive of the supervising ministry to allow the sector register the growth that has eluded it for years. To do otherwise or to exempt any of the parastatals would be to emplace a stunted growth in the industry,” complained Dr. Kachiukwu.

In addition to his complaints, the NNPC Board Chairman asked the President to, among other things, save the NNPC and the oil industry from collapse arising from lack of transparency instituted by Dr. Baru. The minister also begged the President to save his office from further humiliation and disrespect by compelling all parastatals under it to submit to oversight mandate and proper supervision, which he was appointed to manage of the President’s behalf. He equally urged President Buhari to instruct Dr. Baru to allow NNPC run properly and report along due process lines to the Board.

Dr. Kachiukwu called on President Buhari to set the right examples by suspending the recently made appointments in the NNPC and encourage joint presentation meetings between heads of parastatals and the Minister of State to him (President) as a way of encouraging better work ethic and ensuring discipline.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/03/minister-state-ibe-kachiukwu-writes-president-buhari-complains-humiliation-nnpc-group

Hausa/Fulani owns this estate.

Kachikwu, deal with it or resign.

The best option is for him to resign and leave the clueless administration. Imagine the NNPC GMD sidelining the Minister. Northern hegemony at work. Buhari's nepotism cannot allow for the best hands in any parastatal. It is only in government that Northerners excel more than everyone but can't compete in anything else. This administration failed before it started. To think I supported Buhari's election, refused to compromise my integrity as a corps member acting as presiding officer, declared free zobo for all corpers in my lodge when he won hoping for better governance, only for Buhari to show his true colours and fall my hand. I have learnt my lesson the hard way.

Abokis always feeling they re the owners of this contraption nd ve this false sense of being untouchable. Nothing will come out of this memo purportedly written by Ibe Kachukwu...

The GMD has the President's approval.

The minister of State for Petroleum is not required at NNPC.

They will frustrate him out soon.

NNPC is a northern cooperation.

Simple.

This minister get time dey write to Buhari like sey him go do something about it.���
Him go drop ham for dustbin like the Confab reports...

Buhari's government is the most useless government anywhere in the world.

"Quote me and anointing will fall on you"

Ibe Kachukwu, are you just finding out? That's why he is there. Just as Ministries of Finance and Power, Works and Housing have Northern permanent Secretararies to monitor Fashola and Adeosun. Like they monitored that Igbo woman former musician, her northern permanent Secretary kept undoing her plans and nothing was getting done.

waiting for 2019 to see who will campaign for this evil called buhari.




sitting patiently and waiting for this nightmare of a government to pass - i am very hopeful that it will pass and Nigeria will bounce back again.

we always bounce back.

we bounced back after his terrible and evil deeds in 1983.


we bounced back after the terrible ordeal in the hands of his friend abacha.


we will surely bounce back after this evil called buhari - we will overcome this terribly wicked, intolerant, brutal, militocratic and repressive government, and it will be the last time this kind of backward, evil and terrible disaster will ever happen to us as a nation.

nwaanambra1:
waiting for 2019 to see who will campaign for this evil called buhari.




sitting patiently and waiting for this nightmare of a government to pass - i am very hopeful that it will pass and Nigeria will bounce back again.

we always bounce back.

Buhari shouldn't contemplate contesting in 2019. On what basis should he contest? His stellar performance in the first tenure?