More Sack of NNPC Officials To Come - Read Kachikwu's Plan

The newly appointed Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Emmanuel Kachikwu, revealed on Thursday, August 13, that the reforms in the corporation would run its full course until total sanity was achieved.

 

To realize this objective, Kachikwu stated that more officials would have to be relieved of their duties.

 

The new GMD, who spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari also stated that the corporation would be run like a money-making venture to generate returns for Nigeria.

 

He said: “It is an A to Z restructuring. I have done the first three layers which has to do with the GEDs and General Managers. You are going to have a lot more now, the DGs and GMs will take it to the next layer which is the lower layer.

 

“The whole idea is to go back to being able to look at the appraisals, how well, you have done on the job that you have done and if you have done very well how do we elevate you to positions where you can offer more service. If you have not done well enough and we can retrain you, we will, but if you have not done well enough and there is no possibility of retraining, we let you go.

 

“At the end of the day, NNPC isn’t a public service, it is a corporation and it is going to be run like a company, generating money and profit for Nigerians. So, the whole concept of anything goes is going to stop and this is the first stage in that whole process.”

 

Kachichwu also said he had adopted a three-pronged approach in the “cleansing” of the NNPC.  He also stated that a new NNPC was set to emerge after the reforms.