The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Sunday explained the downsizing in the Corporation.
According to him the reduction in the directorate from eight to four at the top management cadre of the NNPC is to refocus and sharpen the business aspiration of the Corporation, adding that training and retraining of members of staff to align with the new vision is the next stage of the ongoing reforms.
However, the GMD explanation was coming at a time the Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (NUPENGASSAN) had called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to call the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to order over the recent sweeping sack of workers in the corporation.
The two Unions in its statement, entitled: “NUPENG-PENGASSAN registers reservations on the government change process in the oil and gas industry in particular.
“We, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (NUPENGASSAN) hereby wish to express our reservations over the ongoing approach of Government to the Reform programme in the oil and gas industry without carrying the two Unions in the Sector along in the process.
“While we are fully in support of the fight against corruption, the fight itself should not be turned against workers whom Government swore to protect. The ongoing exercise portends a great danger in the oil and gas sector, if workers are meant to bear the brunt of government’s current action where the fight of corruption is now used as an act of vindictiveness against workers. The ongoing exercise does not show any act of fighting corruption and blocking any leakages.
“We dare the new GMD of NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to recover the stolen trillions of Naira in the Sector than retiring and sacking of innocent workers. We see the action as an act of cover up. We are quite sure that the ongoing action is not the idea of our dear President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Both Unions argue that further to their social partner’s status, they are strategic players in all spheres and areas of the industry’s operation.
“In that regard, we have been making persistent effort to reach out to Mr. President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue but are being kept in the dark by those in charge of protocol,” they said.
According to him the reduction in the directorate from eight to four at the top management cadre of the NNPC is to refocus and sharpen the business aspiration of the Corporation, adding that training and retraining of members of staff to align with the new vision is the next stage of the ongoing reforms.
However, the GMD explanation was coming at a time the Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (NUPENGASSAN) had called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to call the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to order over the recent sweeping sack of workers in the corporation.
The two Unions in its statement, entitled: “NUPENG-PENGASSAN registers reservations on the government change process in the oil and gas industry in particular.
“We, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (NUPENGASSAN) hereby wish to express our reservations over the ongoing approach of Government to the Reform programme in the oil and gas industry without carrying the two Unions in the Sector along in the process.
“While we are fully in support of the fight against corruption, the fight itself should not be turned against workers whom Government swore to protect. The ongoing exercise portends a great danger in the oil and gas sector, if workers are meant to bear the brunt of government’s current action where the fight of corruption is now used as an act of vindictiveness against workers. The ongoing exercise does not show any act of fighting corruption and blocking any leakages.
“We dare the new GMD of NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to recover the stolen trillions of Naira in the Sector than retiring and sacking of innocent workers. We see the action as an act of cover up. We are quite sure that the ongoing action is not the idea of our dear President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Both Unions argue that further to their social partner’s status, they are strategic players in all spheres and areas of the industry’s operation.
“In that regard, we have been making persistent effort to reach out to Mr. President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue but are being kept in the dark by those in charge of protocol,” they said.
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