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BUHARIS APPOINTEE MAKES PROMISE OF EXCELLENCE



Maikanti Baru, the newly appointed Group Managing Director
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has
rolled out 16 things he will do in his new capacity.
In the 16-point agenda issued by the man who replaces Dr
Ibe Kachikwu, the new NNPC top man revealed that he will
work closely with staff to ensure lasting solutions to the
challenges bedeviling the petroleum sector in the country.
Other items in the 16-point agenda are as follows:
1. Creating an all-inclusive internal advisory council on
security, comprising representatives from NNPC, the
international oil companies, the Petroleum and Natural Gas
Senior Staff Association and National Union of Petroleum and
Natural Gas Workers, and security operatives to brainstorm
and address host community agitations to complement
government security team’s efforts in the Niger Delta region;
2. Implement new business models that would grant
autonomy required to empower the strategic business units
and autonomous business units deliver on their mandates;
3. Provide relevant directions and controls to ensure their
growth and profitability;
4. Continue exploring ways of relieving government the burden
of cash calls obligation as well as address and defray the
agreed cash call arrears of the IOCs;
5. Restore oil and gas production and grow the national
reserve portfolio;
6. Increase crude oil production capacity by the NNPC
upstream subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development
Company (NPDC);
7. Review all weak contractual agreements and terminating
bad ones as appropriate;
8. Leverage on equity positions to cause the development of
key gas assets for both domestic and export;
9. Pursue the expansion of gas networks across the country;
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10. Repair and restore oil and gas pipeline infrastructure and
providing robust security system for both detection and
deterrent in conjunction with the existing security arrangement;
11. Improve refining efficiency of the four existing refineries to
pave the way for future expansion;
12. Pursue diversification of businesses by refocusing on the
implementation of renewable energy programmes and frontier
exploration services;
13. Continue the drive to make the venture businesses
profitable and ensure service delivery;
14. Entrench the culture of professionalism by doing the right
things at all times through transparency, accountability, and
respect for all.
15. Ensure adequate staff welfare and motivation, training and
capacity building.
Baru’s appointment which was announced on July 4, 2016,
has been met with huge criticisms, with most commentators
believing that the new man cannot handle the NNPC as much
as the recently-relieved Kachikwu (who is also Nigeria’s
minister of state for petroleum resources).
In a press statement made public, an oil monitoring group,
the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change
(NDIMRC) described the removal of Dr Kachikwu as an unfair
treatment.
The group which had earlier warned of plot to remove
Kachikwu, said that the new GMD, Baru is not fit for the job.
The statement signed by Nelly Emma, the group’s president,
read in part: “The whole world is our witness that we raised
alarm in April this year that Baru was desperate to be the
GMD of NNPC and was mounting pressure on the President
to sack Kachikwu and now we have been vindicated.
“We are sad over the unfair treatment of Dr Kachikwu by the
President. The former GMD was committed to the total
reform of NNPC of which Baru was against. By the sacking of
the hard-working Dr Kachikwu and replacing him with Baru, it
is now clear to us as a group and the whole world that the
President is not serious about his promise to turn NNPC
around for the better.”