Uneasy
calm now pervades the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation NNPC as its GMD may soon be sacked and a new one appointed by
President Mohammadu Buhari with scary lopsided top management executives
already penciled down to take charge.
Barring any unforeseen
circumstance, the Street Journal can authoritatively report that appointment of
a former Group General Manager of NAPIMS,
a subsidiary of NNPC, Dr MK Baru may be announced any moment from now by
President Mohammadu Buhari to take over from Dr. Joseph T. Dawha, the
incumbent NNPC boss.
It was reliably gathered that Baru is billed to be
sacked along with all the four executive directors appointed by former
president Goodluck Jonathan on August 1, 20014. The corporation had been touted
by economy watchers to be president Buhari’s starting point on his avowed war
against corruption. The NNPC was last year enmeshed in corruption allegations
occasioned by the controversial management of the fuel subsidy that was
generally believed to be far from being transparent.
Our investigation however
revealed that a near all Northerner executive management to be headed by Dr
Baru is in the oven only awaiting the president’s approval before it is made
public. Further investigation revealed that the following individuals have been
penciled down to take charge of the four NNPC’s Directorates; GED Corporate
Services Alhaji Abdurrazaq, GED Finance & Accounts , Alhaji Sambo,
GED Exploration Production, Alhaji
Sa'idi Farouk, GED Commercial & Investment Alhaji Isah Inuwa, GGM, Crude Oil Marketing, Mr Matashi.
Others are: MD, PPMC,
Farouk Bello, MD, NPDC, Malhaji Namtari, Group General Manager, Finance, Alhaji
A.A. Kallamu, Group General Manager, NAPIMS, Mr Dafe Sejebor, Group General
Manager, Audit, Alhaji Aliyu Zubairu, Group General Manager, HR, Mrs Mariam
Sani, MD, Duke Oil, Alhaji Musa Yola, General Manager, Human Resources, Alh
Saeed Abubakar, General Manager, Commercial, Crude Oil, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq.
GM, Finance, NAPIMS, M. A. Balami, and GM, NIPEX, Alhaji M. Ali Sarah.
A cursory look at the
list, however, shows that none of the top NNPC executives in waiting hails from
the South West region of the country. The list also shows a highly Muslims
dominated NNPC top management with scant regard for the nation’s federal
character policy.
It was reliably gathered
that Dr Baru now await the president to settle down in office before his letter
and those of others are distributed. Our investigation revealed that the plan
that had been shrouded in secrecy by the kitchen cabinet of the president is
now causing ripples in the NNPC.
An industry source
confided in our correspondent that the appointments would negate the much
orchestrated war against corruption and injustice that the present
administration was well identified with.
Our source, a chief
executive of an oil servicing firm, noted that sensitive appointments in an organization
like NNPC should not only meet the federal character principle of the
government, but must be seen to have satisfied the requirement. He noted that
the present administration should refrain from any action that was capable of
igniting crisis in the Niger Delta.
‘’I still don’t know how
they want to explain it to Nigerians’’, he said, adding that It would embarrass
the government if the needful were ignored in the exercise before it was made
public.
According to him, the
uneasy calm that pervades the length and breadth of the restive region sequel
to the defeat of the former president, Goodluck Jonathan in the last
presidential election should be sustained by the present government at all
levels to enable them achieve sustainable development. He added that the Niger
Delta youths would not hesitate to resist such lopsided appointments into NNPC
with a mandate to manage the nation’s resources generated largely from the
region.
Until his appointment, as the 16th GMD of the NNPC, Dr
Dawha was NNPC’s Group Executive Director in charge of Exploration and
Production.
Dr. M. K. Baru, however, attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,
in Kaduna State of Nigeria; where he obtained Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical) with a first class honors. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical
engineering.
Before his appointment as
GGM-NAPIMS, Dr. Baru had worked in various capacities in both
the Upstream and Downstream Sectors of NNPC. These
include Group General Manager of Greenfield Refinery Projects, Managing
Director of Hyson, Executive Director of Nigerian Gas
Company (NGC), General Manager - Gas Division of NAPIMS,
Manager - Operations, Procurement Management Services and Manager - Engineering
for National Engineering and Technical Company Limited (NETCO).
During his initial
stint with NAPIMS which spanned from July 1993 to July
1999, Dr. Baru executed several Gas projects which are
utilizing billions of standard cubic feet of gas per day.
Several other ongoing projects were also
conceptualized under his care. He planned the projects that would ensure flare-out by
2008 and made huge savings while overseeing the Joint Venture Gas Projects.
He was also
the NNPC's Chief Technical Negotiator on the West African Gas
Pipeline project from July 1999 to April 2004.
Dr. Baru has been the Chairman of NNPC Anti - Corruption
Committee since September 2004 till date; and has relentlessly sensitized staff
on obligations and laws that govern corruption and corrupt practices.
Dr. Baru is a fellow of
the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE) and a recipient of the
Presidential Merit Award of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers
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