Buhari SACKS 39 NNPC Top Managers; See List of Victims

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A mass purge yesterday hit the top hierarchy of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), claiming the jobs of 39 top management staff of the oil corporation and its subsidiaries. The purge led to the reduction of officials in the top management cadre from 122 to 83.
Those affected are Group General Manager, Company Secretary & Legal Adviser; Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC); Managing Director, Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company (WRPC); Managing Director, Nigerian Gas Company (NGC); Managing Director, Hyson; Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC); and Managing Director, NNPC Retail.

Others are Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd (IDSL); Managing Director, NNPC Properties; Managing Director, Duke Oil; and Group General Manager, Nigerian Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS). The mass purge came four days after New Telegraph, in its August 7 edition, had exclusively reported that the NNPC had begun shopping for replacements for top officials that had been pencilled in for sacking.
The sacking of the oil corporation’s chiefs came just as President Muhammadu Buhari approved of appointments of four Group Executive Directors (GEDs) for the NNPC. The GEDs, whose appointments Buhari has approved, are Dr. Maikanti Baru (Exploration & Production), Mr. Isiaka Abdulrazaq (Finance & Services), Mr. Dennis Nnamdi Ajulu (Refining & Technology) and Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran (Commercial & Investment).
A new Company Secretary/ Legal Adviser and managing directors have also been appointed for the Strategic Business Units. They are: Chidi Momah, Group General Manager, Company Secretary & Legal Adviser; Mrs. Esther Nnamdi Ogbue, Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC); Mr. Chinedu Ezeribe, Managing Director, Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company (WRPC); Mr. Babatunde Bakare, Managing Director, Nigerian Gas Company (NGC); Mr. Inuwa Ibrahim Waya, Managing Director, Hyson; Mr. Abubakar Mai- Bornu, Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC); and Mr. Ladipo Fagbola, Managing Director, NNPC Retail. Others are Mr. Rowland Ewubare, Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd (IDSL); Mr. Modupe Banmeke, Managing Director, NNPC Properties; Mr. Abdulkadir Saidu, Managing Director, Duke Oil; and Mr. Dafe Sejebor, Group General Manager, NAPIMS.
The NNPC, which confirmed the shake-up yesterday, said it was in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to transform the oil corporation into a lean, efficient, business-focused, transparent and accountable national oil company in keeping with international best practices. In the latest shake-up, the second since last week’s appointment of Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as NNPC’s Group Managing Director (GMD), managing directors of NNPC’s subsidiaries were replaced while 12 personnel have been recruited from the private sector into the top management cadre to jump-start a new business outlook to enhance the operational environment as a profit-driven business as against the current civil service orientation.
A statement yesterday by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, quoted Kachikwu as saying that the new appointments are in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to transform the oil corporation into a lean, efficient, business-focused, transparent and accountable national oil company in keeping with international best practices. New Telegraph learnt that the ongoing shakeup in the NNPC had sent jitters down the spine of 24,000 workforces.
The NNPC, oil industry leader, has witnessed the sacking of GMD and Group Executive Directors (GEDs) in the last one week. The sacked GEDs are: Mr. Bernard Otti, GED Finance and Accounts; Dr. Timothy Okon, Acting GED Exploration and Production; Mr. Adebayo Ibirogba, Engineering and Technology; Dr. David Ige, Gas and Power and Ms. Aisha Abdurrahman, Commercial and Investment. Others are Dr. Dan Efebo, Corporate Services; Mr. Ian Udoh, Refining & Petrochemicals and Dr. Attahiru Yusuf, Business Development. But in a swift reaction, the President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers’ Association (IPMAN), Mr. Chinedu Okoronkwo, commended the shake-up in the sector, stating that it is a healthy development.
According to him, the coming on board of Kachikwu will reengineer the oil sector and enthrone professionalism. He said: “So, now that we are talking about change, it can only be meaningful when we bring the right people at the right point. The current GMD, you will agree with me, having served in ExxonMobil at that height, is a blessing to this country because he would bring to bear what he has used to sustain the multinational company called ExxonMobil.
“If NNPC is doing well, out of necessity, other subsidiaries would fall in place. If the head is not rotten, other parts of the body will also receive normal nourishment. Now that the head of NNPC is good, it follows that every other sector in the industry will begin to have a new feel of life.”
Source: New Telegraph
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