*** claims life of minister under threat from northern cabal
**** wants scandal in nnpc
investigated
*** calls for suspension of NNPC boss
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change
(NDIMRC), has warned against frustrating
the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu just as it
claimed that the life of the Minister was under threat.
The Group alleged it
has uncovered plans to allocate 100 %
oil blocs to those in the North to the detriment of the people of the
Niger Delta Region and claimed that the planned declaration of Crocodile Smile
in the Region was to check resistance of the people to the allocation of the
oil blocs. It called for the scandal in NNPC to be
investigated and it's Group Managing Director( GMD), Dr Maikanti Baru
suspended.
The Minister had in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari,
complained about some appointments and reorganizations carried out in Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) without his input.
According to him, he read about them on social media and mainstream media like
every other Nigerian.
The Minister had kicked against what he described as
insubordination and lack of adherence to due process perpetuated by the Group
Managing Director ( GMD) of the NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru.
The oil monitoring group, NDIMRC fumed over the way the
Minister was being treated and warned that enough was enough.
In a press statement signed by its President, Nelly Emma,
Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Office (PRO) Stanley Mukoro, the
group said that the Minister deserved to be treated fairly and accorded due
respect.
According to the group;" We have been watching the activities
of the GMD of the NNPC, Dr. Baru since he came on Board and we are not
impressed with the way he is treating the Minister of State for Petroleum and
people from the Niger Delta Region working in the NNPC. We have seen that the
GMD of NNPC is bent on destroying the solid foundation laid by the Minister of
State for Petroleum and determined to frustrate the Minister, but we are not
going to take this likely because the oil
Dr. Baru is presiding over belongs to the people of the Niger Delta
Region and not the North".
"The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Emmanuel Ibe
Kachikwu must be allowed to take charge of the
Board of NNPC which the President inaugurated. Our findings revealed
that the recent appointments and postings were done without
the knowledge of the Board. Members of the Board learned of these appointments
from social media and the press release
of NNPC. This is bad enough and must not be encouraged", the Group said.
The Group added that;" We are not happy over the way
the Minister is being frustrated. He should be allowed to exercise his power as
the Chairman of the NNPC Board. They should let the whole world to know why he
is not being allowed to function effectively as the Chairman of the Board. The
Minister was transparent when he was the GMD of NNPC, he carried out ethnic
balancing, but the reverse is now the
case since Dr. Baru was appointed. The
current Board of the NNPC must be empowered and given free hand to
operate".
"The office of the Minister of State for Petroleum must
be saved from further humiliation and disrespect. The Minister is not
anti-North as all appointments made by him in the past were balanced and based
strictly on skills, experience, drive and ethnic balancing for senior
management positions, but this is not the case with the current GMD of the
NNPC", the group stated.
The oil monitoring group urged President Buhari to treat the
letter written to him by the Minister with all seriousness, adding that the
President must call the GMD of NNPC to order now.
According to the group also;"For transparency, we want to appeal to the President that the recently announced reorganization changes
carried out by the GMD of the NNPC Dr. Baru be suspended until the GMD, the Minister, and the Board have made
relevant input"
"We make bold to say that the fight against corruption
of the administration of President Buhari will be meaningless without a total
clean up of the NNPC. The GMD of NNPC has awarded Contracts worth over 25
Billion Dollars without approval of the Board at a time the whole world is
being told that the President is fighting corruption .Who is fooling who? And
does the GMD has the right to do so. If this was done by somebody from the
South -- South, EFCC, SSS and DSS would have gone after such person. The whole
world is watching how the President is fighting corruption in Nigeria",
The group also said that:"The only offence of Niger Delta ex-militant Leader, Chief
Government Ekpemupolo ( aka Tompolo) was that he sold his property to the
previous administration for #11Billion and at the end of the day he was
declared wanted by the Government of the day. Even the Vice President, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo during a visit, was impressed with the Nigerian Maritime
University, Okerenkoko that Tompolo
attracted to the Region. But his name entered the bad book of the Federal
Government. What about the GMD of NNPC that awarded 25 Billion Dollars
Contracts without following due process? Has anyone accused him of wrong doing?
Even Nnamdi Kanu that has been labeled as a Terrorist by the Federal Government
has not committed the magnitude of the offence the GMD of NNPC has committed
against the Nigerian State".
"Our investigation revealed that oil blocs in the Niger
Delta Region would soon be allocated in the ratio of 100 % to the North hence the planned declaration of
Crocodile Smile in the Region so that the owners of the oil will be wiped out
if they resist the allocation of their God given resources.Let it be made clear
that this injustice that is about to be carried out against the peace loving
people of the oil rich Niger Delta Region will not stand and no amount of
Crocodile Smile can stop the people whose time has come", the oil
monitoring group stated.
It added that;"Oil companies are on longer interested
in investing in Nigeria because of the massive corruption in NNPC under the
watch of the current GMD. We implore the Federal Government to send EFCC, SSS,
DSS, Crocodile Smile and Python Dance to the NNPC. The scandal in NNPC must be
investigated and the Corporation cleaned
of corruption. We are also calling for the immediate suspension of the GMD of
NNPC for the probe of the Corporation to be meaningful".
"Oil production has gone up because of the prevailing
peace in the Niger Delta Region. Militants in the Region have stopped the
bombing of oil facilities and so the Federal Government has no reason to
declare Crocodile Smile in the Region. We are insisting that the planned
declaration of Crocodile Smile is because the Government is about allocating
100% of the oil blocs to the North".
"Our checks have shown that the Cabal in the North are
planning to use the Military, EFCC, SSS and DSS against the Minister of State
for Petroleum, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu because they are not happy with the
letter he wrote to the President. The life of the Minister is under threat,
his life is no longer safe and the Cabal
should be held responsible should any unpleasant thing happen to the
Minister", the group alleged.
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