Setaje:

... The biggest problem nnpc has is government involvement. The other day, El rufai said a nnpc should be scraped. Ignoramus were saying yes it should. Bla bla bla. I have it on good authority that El rufai said that because his brother was denied a slot to be importing fuel. His brother is not an oil marketer but he wanted to use his influence for his brother and he was refused. Days later he came out to say nnpc should be scrapped.

Any rich and influential man that knows his onus should never venture into Nigerian politics because they will rubbish u the way they have rubbished okonjo. Anybody that wants to run Nigeria effectively must come wiv clean hands. If he thinks he can install his family members there. Everything is being documented. I know nnpc like a plate of rice.

kay9:


I don't mean to defend laudate's demands for "proof", but the very fact that the new GMD hasn't even been in office for up to TWO WEEKS [/b]and already plans to sack 1,000 people... bros me, something is NOT being properly done.

Yes, NNPC is over-bloated with lots of "white elephant" personnel, but you can't tell me that in just a little over 1 week, Mr. Kachi has done a comprehensive appraisal of all concerned staff AND identified all those that are under-performing. C'mon, let's be realistic here. It was also mentioned that people due for retirement [b]by December 2016 will be laid off as well. Like seriously?? Eziokwu?? Please someone should inform the new boss that doing that is actually a crime, and that the laid-off workers will have a VERY solid case in court. So unless his real motive is to sink the NNPC into an even bigger mess, he should re-think his strategies. And what about disengagement packages? Or, does he intend to sack and continue round 2 in settlement courts?

Anything worth doing is worth doing well; the NNPC needs downsizing, yes, but it must be done right - fairly and equitably, on the basis of low performance indices and non-qualification for the given role - not by a knee-jerk pronouncement.

laudate:


Thank you for actually taking out time to read, digest and understand my post. Those are the right words: "fairly & equitably".

Yungwizzzy:
1000 dropped to employ 5000 of their relatives and friends

FUCKINGNIGAZ:
LAUDATE damburuba, dambanza sege waka yafada. you are a stupid Southerner worker, I hereby command you to be subservient to Buhari and all his northern cohort walahi. Inshalla u shall learn that the north shall make Nigeria great again. I will search you i.p. address and when I catch you I will turn you into suya and sell to your canibal southern brothers. walahi.

laudate:


I may not understand every single thing you have said nor even agree with it, but one fact I do know which you rightly stated is this: "Government involvement" is a big problem in NNPC.

It ranges from undue interference from govt appointees, external sources /people trying to corruptly enrich themselves at NNPC's expense, diversion of NNPC's funds to political campaigns etc. Sad!

tsdarkside:


are you sure of your statement??....its a company...companys are about profit...and believe me,a company would rather employ 50 robots than 5`000 human-workers,to make profit.......

laudate:


Very funny! Provide proof please, that the entire 1,000 people were incompetent. This is one problem with Nigeria. You guys will shout blue murder if the affected people are your kinsmen, but as long as they remain faceless... you really do not care. There is something called professional experience, institutional memory etc. All these will be lost in a single day, because some clowns sat down and decided to lay off 1,000 people in one fell swoop instead of taking time out to conduct a thorough investigation, then gradually phase out those who are not pulling their weight, within the system. A well-structured handover and succession process would then be instituted, as these people gradually wind down, and leave the system. Was that done in this case?? Kindly let us know.

And where are the more competent people that are to be employed? Is it from the pool of unemployed graduates on our shores, that do not even know how to write a single business case or memo??

A man takes over as GMD of NNPC and in just one week decides that the first thing to do, is sack 1,000 people. It is not as if any process was automated, that made these people redundant. It is not that a new process or structure was instituted, that did not require the presence of so many people. It is not as if any major departmental function was outsourced. So what was the criteria used in laying off this huge number of staff?

What is the total number of staff employed by NNPC that would justify laying off 1,000 people? And do they even have enough money to pay off their terminal benefits in a timely manner??

Eruditor:
Laudate,

I am not sure you read the article well. Or maybe your primordial dislike for his background or ideologies is tainting your understanding of some of his actions.

The article said 2 things.

1. About 800 of the 1000 were already on their way out due to AGE and years of service.

2. That he is not responsible for the lower cadre retrenchments. He only handled that of the GEDs, GGMs and GMs and he has delegated the responsibility of weeding out redundant, unproductive, overaged and overworked staff to those below him.

It is also important to take note that there is an ongoing recruitment process for EH and GT that I am sure will be used to replace some of the redundant workers in due time.

laudate:


Madam, am not aggrieved with the restructuring, provided it is done in a proper and ethical manner. And am not an official of NNPC, so kindly stop the conjecture.

I do not need to have an audience with Kachikwu to make any feelings known to him. His actions already portray the kind of person he is. Don't forget that "by their fruits, ye shall know them."


How about you take a position of "look and see, and if you are proved correct, we will all come and apologize to you, ok?"

The fact remains, as someone said earlier, mediocrity cannot continue, and if you have over 1000 staff that are at retirement age, and/or not providing value to the corporation, but rather just waiting on end of month salary (which is made up of all our commonwealth FYI)
My objections have to do with the blind defence of any silly action that any top govt official carries out, in this country.

We are all so quick to hail any action without thinking it through, or looking at the pros and cons of those actions as well as the resultant effects on the system. Yet, when things end up not working properly, we turn round to blame others for the misfortune that arises, from the consequences of such actions.

We cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again, yet keep expecting a different result. Other GMDs have tried this approach in the past and it yielded nothing, but failure! Other parastatals have also embarked on the same course of action in the past, only to end up with greater problems than those which initially existed.

We need to look beyond just the implementation of any action, and research the consequences of such actions on the system, the processes, the staff, the corporation and even the country, itself. There is something called "Change Management," and it is a process that every parastatal fails spectacularly, in this country.

Your GMD has started the process. Let us all wait and see how it turns out in the coming months.

obailala:


Don't you guys think you 'might' be the ones prematurely jumping into conclusions?.... @kay9, you claim the GMD hasn't been in office for up to 2 weeks hence it is too early for him to make such a decision. @Laudate claims due process may have not been followed. From your arguments, the both of you have instantly concluded that this retrenchment exercise is a brainchild of the new GMD. Have you imagined that this could be a process that has been on for a long time even before the appointment of Mr Kachi?... Have you both given it a thought that a thorough investigation may have been conducted in past and this recommendation may have just been lying on the desk of the previous GMD and president without action?...

I personally do not know the details, but I'm almost sure this exercise is not totally the handwork of the new GMD; the new GMD may just be a man of hard balls who's just implementing the recommendations of an investigative panel which was concluded in the past. Let's seek more information before we dive into the arguments.

laudate:


Kindly point us to that section of the article, where the GMD said 'this exercise was not totally his handiwork'.

If he was just implementing the recommendations of an investigative panel, how come he did not say so and there was no press statement alluding to such an exercise??

obailala:


Don't you guys think you 'might' be the ones prematurely jumping into conclusions?.... @kay9, you claim the GMD hasn't been in office for up to 2 weeks hence it is too early for him to make such a decision. @Laudate claims due process may have not been followed. From your arguments, the both of you have instantly concluded that this retrenchment exercise is a brainchild of the new GMD. Have you imagined that this could be a process that has been on for a long time even before the appointment of Mr Kachi?... Have you both given it a thought that a thorough investigation may have been conducted in past and this recommendation may have just been lying on the desk of the previous GMD and president without action?...

I personally do not know the details, but I'm almost sure this exercise is not totally the handwork of the new GMD; the new GMD may just be a man of hard balls who's just implementing the recommendations of an investigative panel which was concluded in the past. Let's seek more information before we dive into the arguments.

obailala:
So because it was not mentioned in the article, you have assumed the rest?.... C'mon, it's not everything they have to mention to you.

laudate:


Very funny! Provide proof please, that the entire 1,000 people were incompetent. This is one problem with Nigeria. You guys will shout blue murder if the affected people are your kinsmen, but as long as they remain faceless... you really do not care. There is something called professional experience, institutional memory etc. All these will be lost in a single day, because some clowns sat down and decided to lay off 1,000 people in one fell swoop instead of taking time out to conduct a thorough investigation, then gradually phase out those who are not pulling their weight, within the system. A well-structured handover and succession process would then be instituted, as these people gradually wind down, and leave the system. Was that done in this case?? Kindly let us know.

And where are the more competent people that are to be employed? Is it from the pool of unemployed graduates on our shores, that do not even know how to write a single business case or memo??

A man takes over as GMD of NNPC and in just one week decides that the first thing to do, is sack 1,000 people. It is not as if any process was automated, that made these people redundant. It is not that a new process or structure was instituted, that did not require the presence of so many people. It is not as if any major departmental function was outsourced. So what was the criteria used in laying off this huge number of staff?

What is the total number of staff employed by NNPC that would justify laying off 1,000 people? And do they even have enough money to pay off their terminal benefits in a timely manner??

FUCKINGNIGAZ:
LAUDATE damburuba, dambanza sege waka yafada. you are a stupid Southerner worker, I hereby command you to be subservient to Buhari and all his northern cohort walahi. Inshalla u shall learn that the north shall make Nigeria great again. I will search you i.p. address and when I catch you I will turn you into suya and sell to your canibal southern brothers. walahi.

laudate:

Numb.skull! Go and seek psychiatric help, first. Have you finished dealing with the Boko Haram guys that are busy finishing off your people?/

laudate:


Madam, don't just post corporate double-speak online. Provide proof, that the criteria was used in sending those 1,000 people packing. Is that so hard to do?? You are jumping to GMD's defence without knowing the true story of the matter... simply because in your own words, 'people said' or you know 'people who said' ..... na wah, oh!. Like I asked you before.... "What proof do you have that those people who were laid off, did not add any value to NNPC??

kay9:


No sir, I do not think I am jumping to conclusions at all (in fact, I think you are the one doing that).

Mr. Kachi made a public announcement, so please, how is it a "premature conclusion" when I'm just commenting something he actually publicly said? Secondly, your own argument is terribly flawed; first you ask if I have "imagined" that "this could be a process that has been on for a long time..."; then you go on to say "I'm almost sure this exercise is not totally the handwork of the new GMD". If you are a simple and straight-forward person like me, then you will admit that your statements are all based on imagination and conjecture (assumption).

Yes, I certainly did NOT imagine that this process may be something else bigger or whatever, because I have no FACT or VERIFIABLE REASON to imagine so. As for the whole thing not being the GMD's handwork (as you put it), well if that is so, then I'm sorry for him. I don't go around trying to guess or imagine or assume or presume... A man's word should be his bond.

laudate:


Guy, what assumptions did I make? You are the one who claimed it was not totally his handiwork!

How do you know this??!

kishimi8:


OK had to come in, I believe the article said retirement right, they have already spent the 35 years allowed, thats why they had to go!!!!

Setaje:


Hmmmmn. Kachikwu would wish at the end of the day that he did not get this job. Nnpc is almost like an hausa company. It's like the hausas baby. So many unqualified nematodes are there. People who read islamic religious studies. I am talking from experience not hear say. A guy got appointment because he was always cleaning the mosque where nnpc staff used to pray at falomo. At a time in nnpc, u enter the bathroom to use the toilet. U hardly see tissue. U see kettle because of the muslims. I can go on and on. I would not advise my enemy to work there. Nnpc is a glorified ministry. A graduate earns 130 or 140k. Compare that to their counterparts in shell. How about nnpc staff cornering all contracts to their families.

Miranda11:


I don't need to provide proof, the GMD has said it that performance reviews will be used where it is possible to retrain staff for them to be more efficient then such staff will be kept, but where there is no value in doing so they will be let go. This is the criteria that is being used. If u know anybody that works in NNPC and who can be honest with you about the reality of the situation then you won't say this. I know pple who work in NNPC and they complain bitterly about the incompetence of the staff there who were employed simply on a man know man basis, they come to work do not add value and get the intelligent junior staff to do all the work. How can NNPC continue to survive like this and unfortunately this is the case throughout the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

WhiteTechnology:
Some of them voted for Change

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laudate:


Which of the articles are you making reference, to? Is it the Daily Trust article posted by the OP or is it the Premium Times article posted by Miranda11?

If it is the Daily Trust article, it said that those people were due to retire in December 2016 not now, which means they are being shoved out much earlier than scheduled. They are not due for retirement until Dec 2016.

laudate:


No, you are the one that is thinking like 'a small man'. And it is that mediocrity that oozes from your words. So, because a man attends Harvard, you feel it gives him the right to toy with the fortunes of an entire corporation, and destroy the lives and careers of 1,000 people in one fell swoop? Even in America where Harvard is located, such things cannot be done in just 1 week, or you would be hit with multiple law suits from every corner!

Like I explained in my very first post in this thread, there is a process and procedure for carrying out such things in a structured manner. You do not just get into a seat or position of power, and the first thing you do is to lay off people in under 1 week. Is he an undertaker sent to supervise the demise of NNPC?