Over 1000 workers of the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will leave
service any moment from now, Daily Trust has
learnt.
More than 200 of them are middle level
officers that are caught up in the ongoing
restructuring that has seen the exit of top
management staff and nine heads of the
corporation’s subsidiaries.
About 800 others are those that will attain the
mandatory retirement age of 60 years or 35
years in service in the next one and a half
years.
The new NNPC boss, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has
said all staff retiring by 31st December 2016
should go now as a result of the downsizing,
a source said.
The source said those to be affected are from
the subsidiaries, especially pioneer workers of
the refineries.
As at January this year, the Corporation has
about 9,500 workers in its services.
The New Group Managing Director announced
the disengagement of 38 management staff
last week and said the on-going retirement of
the Corporation workers will go down to the
lower cadre.
‘It’s A to zero restructuring. I’ve done the first
three layers which is going from the Group
Executive Directors to Group General Managers
and General Managers. You’re going to have a
lot more now. The NNPC isn’t public service.
It’s a corporation and we run like a company
generating money for the people of Nigeria.
So, the whole concept of anything goes should
stop,” he had said.
Already there is agitation from the staff due
to the on-going reforms alleging that it was
not following due process.
They cited the example of recruitment of
about 12 top management staff into
corporation and deploying them in key
positions without any employment notice or
consultations of relevant stakeholders.
They also accused the new management of
punishing some staff that insisted on due
process.
Last Friday the two unions in the oil industry,
the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural
Gas Workers and Petroleum and Natural Gas
Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (NUPENG
and PENGASSAN) warned that the reforms are
exposing their members to danger.
“The on-going exercise portends a great
danger in the Oil and Gas Sector, if workers
are meant to bear the brunt of Government
current action where the fight on corruption is
now used as an act of vindictiveness against
workers.”
Meanwhile, the management has scheduled a
meeting with the oil unions tomorrow as part
of the efforts to carry them along.
The Management further said the reforms
were free from ethnicity or any agenda but
mainly to enshrine professionalism in the
system in a statement issued recently.
I’m Not on Mass Retrenchment Binge - GMD
The Group Managing Director has said his
mandate was to put in place efficient,
transparent and profit-oriented processes and
not to embark on a mass retrenchment of the
workforce.
Dr. Kachikwu stated that the mandate given to
him by President Muhammadu Buhari is to
turn around the entire commercial processes
and procedures in order to impact on the
growth trajectory and operations of the
Corporation.
A statement from the NNPC yesterday said
the reduction in the directorate from eight (
to four (4) 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.
The NNPC helmsman noted that all Production
Sharing Contracts, Joint Venture Agreements
and all other contracts between the NNPC and
its various partners would be reviewed to
reflect current day realities in the global oil
and gas industry.
Dr. Kachikwu reassured that the recent
repositioning is to put in place the right set of
skills for performance stressing that the new
arrangement provides a veritable vista for
upcoming professionals in the Corporation to
have a speedy career path.
He stated that the NNPC under his watch
would put in place mechanisms that would
plug all revenue leakages in the upstream,
midstream and downstream sectors while
adding that all crude oil proceeds due for the
Federation Account would be remitted
accordingly. http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/nnpc-retires-1000/106772.html

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that's good news that means we are changing jobs very soon abeg hit me when nnpc starts recruiting.

Hmmm!

1000 ke ,abeg increase it to 2000, Awon boys wan enter.

About 800 others are those that will attain the
mandatory retirement age of 60 years or 35
years in service in the next one and a half
years.
The new NNPC boss, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has
said all staff retiring by 31st December 2016
should go now as a result of the downsizing - The earlier the better

Lalasticlala

1000 added 2 labour market.....makin it 35mil

wow...thats a huge figure

Good hope its legal sha. And pls publish employment procidur soon i beg

1000 dropped to employ 5000 of their relatives and friends

Wa sere. Correct guy.

Maybe now they can call those of us they subjected to inhuman conditions just to write their exams late last year after 2 years of waiting.

I said it before, and Kachikwu is proving me right... "the undertakers have arrived."

This man will go down in history, as the one who supervised the demise of NNPC.