The Nigerian Association of Online Publishers has called
on the Minister of Petroleum Resources President Muhammadu Buhari and the Board
of the NNPC which is headed by the Minister of State For Petroleum Resources
Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to quickly review the recent movement of management personnel
in the organization because it contains very palpable cases of vendetta and
injustice. in a press release signed by its National President and Secretary and
made available to newsmen in Abuja, the association made particular reference
to the NNPC spokesperson Mallam Garba deen Muhammad who was given an ambiguous
posting that leaves him in limbo.
Until the recent postings Muhammed is the Group General
Manager, Group Public Affairs of the NNPC; but in a very curios action he was
moved to the position of "general manager communication and strategy"
while still retaining his GGM position. the organization said this is enough to
destabilize anyone and kill their morale.
The online publishers also queried the rush with which
the gmd went about the posting. they observe that if baru's motives were
sincere and in the interest of the corporation he would have waited another
couple of days when the nnpc board would be inaugurated and then run the
process through the board. that way he would have avoided the suspicion and
errors that normally accompany a one man know-all decision. but as it were,
baru cannot defend himself against the accusation of carrying out a personal
vendetta against his perceived enemies. it is very possible, says the online
publishers, that muhammed who joined the nnpc only about six months ago is a
victim of hate and vendetta by baru who has never hiden his disdain for so
called outsiders joining the nnpc.
"this attitude is particularly dangerous when the
case of mr. garbadeen is examined. the online body of publishers said that
garbadeen was invited by the minister of state for petroleum dr. kachikwu who
was then doubling as gmd, to come and serve his country. garbadeen, accepted to
serve out of a sence of national duty. "garbadeen left a flourishing media
practice, a respectable job as editor at large with the sun newspapers, a
popular and respected colunists and at the time the prestigious position of the
president of the nigerian guild of editors (nge) to come and serve his country;
only for him to be treated so shabbily and so wickedly. "this is injustice
and unacceptable under any guise. it is in this light that we call on president
buhari whose sennse of justice is not in doubt to intervene and salvage the
reputation of an honest and patriotic citizen whose only crime was that he
answered the national call to serve his country at the expense of a brilliant
career that he built painfully over the last two decades.
the association further said that apart from discouraging
competent nigerians at home and abroad from making sacrifices for the country,
such inexplicable inconsistency coming less than six months after a similar
exercise will spook investors and stun growth of the oil and gas industry. the
online practitioners further avered that if indeed the president granted
approval for this injustice it must be because he was misled by baru, and that
is why the president and the board of the nnpc have a moral obligation to
review the exercise and wherever infractions were detected they must be
redressed. recalling the role that garbadeen played during the fuel subidy
standoff with labour and other stakeholders, the online publishers maintain
that humiliating garbedeen so cruely for the personal satisfaction of the gmd
is sad and a depressing indicator of why the corporation has been gong down
over the years. the nnpc is bigger than the interest of any individual and
injustice to one is injustice to all.
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