anibestlala:
And that's true. the man made efforts to reach the President and when he was denied access ,he wrote to him since August only for the letter to be leaked in October. suddenly Kachikwu was granted audience with the President after the leakage.Sherlock Holmes would say that no matter how good an egg looks ,if it smells there is something wrong.

Doyin2:


Stupid comment!

Who determines due process,kachikwu or the NNPC act?

Your phantom simulations of non existent scenarios is also hilarious.

Vivere:


God bless you speaking the truth. Kachikwu's woes were self-inflicted by him.

ebbo:


The clause stated that the GMD will only report to a substantial minister which is the minister of petroleum not the state minister when it comes to approval of contracts worth more than $20million. And the substantial minister of petroleum here is Buhari

seunmsg:


Since the minister of petroleum is also the president, the GMD procedurally still must go through the minister of state before reaching the senior minister. If heads of agencies in the oil industry are all allowed access to the president without going through the minister of state, then the minister is extremely useless and inconsequential. He should just resign than staying as an irrelevant minister.

cstr1000:
The same people that degrade verifiable media such as vanguard and the Sun as IPOB media against the president are the same unscrupulous people jumping and jubiliating on a report most likely falsified and from a very unknown sources as sacrosanct especially in this significant case where the very bastions of Nigerian corruption have an interest.
They complain that osinbanjo is being overrided by the cabal, and at the same time defend the same cabal because it paints buhari in a bad light.
Kachiku came to the villa alone to see the president, while baru came with El-rufai and other northern cabals as a show of force.
And some yoruba nincompoops expect anybody with a brain to somehow see kachikwu as the over-reaching party here.
Eledumare go deal with all of una .

ubergold:


I have read well, have you? There is no way contracts of this magnitude will not pass through the office of the Minister of State of Petroleum. If it doesn't then the so called reforms being done in the Petroleum sector has been just a sham. But if it did, then the head of that office is telling you that due process wasn't followed! Him being his boss is not even the issue. Tomorrow if another party takes over and then the contracts worth $26 b couldn't be substantiated, guess who the then Deziani will be. Let me help you answer, Ibe Kachukwu. Why? It's still folks like that will be quick to answer "because he was minister of state of Petroleum" and guess what? You will be right

#Think

Sammiejokes:

Mr man Kachukwu spare headed the reform himself before being sidelined
Oga Buhari is the head of the ministry not kachwuchu. Please read well okay. he is a PA to the minister of petroleum.

Sammiejokes:

Mr man Kachukwu spare headed the reform himself before being sidelined
Oga Buhari is the head of the ministry not kachwuchu. Please read well okay. he is a PA to the minister of petroleum.

cstr1000:

He awarded himself a contract full stop. And the contract was mightily inflated, it was not even funny. He should be in jail or fired at worst, not being suspended and control things from behind. Your buhari is supposed to be tough on corruption not just the ones involving PDP members.
Barth Nnaji under GEJ despite being more effective than fashola and babachir will ever be had to resign when he bided for a share in the power sector. He did not even need to win, the moment he applied for a bid, he resigned as minister.
Stella oduah committed an offense and was fired for it, QED. Which of the two presidents to the neutral eye has fought corruption with these two cases?

seunmsg:


NNPC cannot award contracts that are above $20million without FEC approval. The GMD of NNPC is not a member of FEC and can't present memos for procurement to the body. He has to go through the supervising minister. Now, if the GMD is getting approval directly from the president without going through the minister and FEC, then there is a serious breach of protocol and due process. It also shows the presidents lack of confidence in his minister of state for petroleum.

If the above is the case, Kachikwu should quietly resign instead of sucking up the insubordination and lack of trust. Let the president and his cabal continue to run the oil industry in a manner that shows serious disregard for due process and lack of transparency.

ivandragon:


exactly!


if the matter was presented at FEC, it would have been Kachukwu that would have made the presentation on behalf of his ministry.

so why would he present something to the FEC & turn around to condemn it?


these APC goons are just trying to muddle up the issues.

first it was $4b within 6 months of this regime. now another $26b with stories...

that's $30b within 2 years that has 'comma' attached

mumuto:

Mr president is the minister of petroleum and unless he delegates powers to the minister of state, the minister of state cannot perform by law. People access mr president and gets approvals without thinking of the VP

Vivere:


Baru is a technocrat with far more hands-on experience in the oil industry than Kachikwu. He is an engineer with Ph.D in mechanical engineering. The problem is that Kachikwu has realised that the GMD's role carries more weight and more decision-making powers, than the Minister-of-State's role. That is what is causing this bad belle. If I were Buhari, I would replace both of them for causing this fiasco.

deji17:
REVEALED: How NNPC Act, BPP contract clause frustrated Kachikwu’s bid to micro-manage Baru
By Ibrahim Suleiman - October 6, 2017

More damning insights have emerged on Friday as to how some legal clauses frustrated the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Kachikwu from having “supervisory powers” over the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru.

Mr Kachikwu had in a leaked 8-page letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday accused Mr Baru of “acts of insubordination, humiliation, disrespect and lack of due process in the award of contracts.”

On Tuesday, DAILY NIGERIAN exclusively revealed why the minister reported the GMD to the President.

But in what could be seen as a new twist to the raging rift between the two oil czars, a senior NNPC official who preferred not to be named exclusively told DAILY NIGERIAN that the fight was beyond what was contained in the letter.

“The fight between Kachikwu and Baru emanated from two clauses within the NNPC. And these are the NNPC Act and the Clause in a correspondence from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to the then GMD of NNPC (Ibe Kachikwu) regarding contracts.

“In the NNPC Act,” the source added, “it was stated clearly that the GMD NNPC will report directly to the Substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources, in this case President Muhammadu Buhari. Sadly for Kachikwu, the Act was silent on the GMD reporting to him.



“Secondly, in a letter dated June 26, 2015, the BPP clarified a clause regarding the power of the NNPC Tenders Board (and not the NNPC Board) to award contracts without recourse to the Minister of State.

“The approval limit of the NNPC Tenders Board is $20m. But where such contracts exceed the tenders board’s limits, approval must be sought from the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

“And in the case of the $26billion Kachikwu claimed Baru spent without due process, it was the same Federal Executive Council, with Kachikwu as a member, that approved the contracts. How would Baru, who is not even a member of FEC, be blamed for side-stepping the minister and bypassing due process?” the insider queried.




BPP’s clarification to Mr Kachikwu on powers of NNPC Tenders Board to award contracts
Also, a correspondence seen by DAILY NIGERIAN from the BPP to the NNPC during Kachikwu’s reign as GMD/Minister of State for Petroleum, read in part: “The [NNPC] Governing Board is responsible for approval of the work programmes, corporate contract plans and budget while the [NNPC] Tenders Board is responsible for approval of day to day procurement implementation.”

According to the source, Mr Baru knew all these provisions very well and was using both in his dealings with Mr Kachikwu.

“Strangely, the same Minister who obtained such clarifications from the BPP while serving as GMD NNPC has now turned against it,” the source added.



According to him, “the whole bone of contention was because while Mr Kachikwu realized he was powerless to influence Baru as Minister of State in terms of contracts and other demands, the Minister could still not stand watching Baru having unfettered access to the President.”

The source further revealed that shortly after becoming the Minister of State and lost the authority to award “juicy contracts”, Mr Kachikwu successfully coned the President to make him Chairman of the NNPC Board.

“Unfortunately again for Kachikwu, he has no much influence on the GMD and his activities,” the source noted.

On the alleged skewed appointments, the source explained that what Mr Baru did was well in order as it was a continuation of most of the restructuring efforts earlier embarked by the Minister, while serving as the GMD NNPC.

“If you look at it critically, we can say nothing has changed. After all, Baru has been magnanimous enough to retain Kachikwu’s allies. The entire Chief Operating Officers (COO) of the Corporation were brought in by Kachikwu from some oil companies operating in Nigeria.

“For instance, among the seven Chief Operating Officers (COO/GEDs) currently working under Baru, five were actually appointed by Dr Kachikwu, three of whom came along with him from the International Oil Companies (IOCs),” he noted.

DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that while Mr Kachikwu brought in Babatunde Adeniran (COO Ventures), Anibor Kragha (COO Refineries) and Henry Ikem-Obih (COO Downstream) from outside, Isa Inuwa (COO Corporate Services), Bello Rabiu were sourced from within. Chidi Momah, who is still Secretary to the Corporation, was also hired by Mr Kachikwu.

The source finally noted that Mr Kachikwu’s letter has now torn apart what is left of the relationship between the two parties. “For now, it is beyond repair, and until Mr. President swings into action quickly, the end to this unhealthy rift may not be in sight,” he added.

When contacted, Mr Kachikwu’s spokesman, Idang Alibi, confirmed that only the NNPC Tenders Board not NNPC Board chaired by his boss, has the authority to award contracts.

Asked to further explain whether his boss was present at the Federal Executive Council meeting where the $26billion contract was approved, Mr Alibi declined comment, requesting that the questions be mailed to him.

He however did not provide the email address where DAILY NIGERIAN can send him the inquiries.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/dailynigerian.com/headline/revealed-nnpc-act-bpp-contract-clause-frustrated-kachikwus-bid-micro-manage-baru/amp/

seunmsg:
Kachikwu as minister of state is a toothless bulldog. If the president cannot upgrade him to a full minister, he should resign instead of getting himself rubbished.

seunmsg:


Since the minister of petroleum is also the president, the GMD procedurally still must go through the minister of state before reaching the senior minister. If heads of agencies in the oil industry are all allowed access to the president without going through the minister of state, then the minister is extremely useless and inconsequential. He should just resign than staying as an irrelevant minister.

datola:
Thank you for the mature and factual response instead of resorting to abusive words.

babaolofin:
I feel really sorry for Kachikwu. I know this is what is going to happen to him. He should have remained as the executive vice chairman of ExxonMobil Africa. When he was brought into the government to stabilise business with American oil partners when oil price was very low & patronage from US also low, little did he know that cabal will frustrate him out.

They frustrated him out of NNPC as the GMD to make him a minister of state without PORTFOLIO. That's Nigeria for you. This is a lesson. Even when the president is sick or without any technical knowledge of the oil business & deals, the cabal will still use his name. The other one said the president is the minister, you can get access to him & get approval without the VP. This is when his minister of state cannot see him, when he has spent cumulative 14 months on sickness locally & abroad .Yaradua's case is an example here, I remember Andoaaka & his Yaradua's cabal.
Thank God, trasgender & every sort of things are possible in medical world now.

Until Nigeria restructures , there can be no positive result. We are back to the era of PTF where Afri Project Consortium (APC) manages projects without accountability. What happens at NNPC during Abacha is similar to what is happening now.

Kachikwu is as good as gone. He may wait for some time. Tendering letter of resignation is not the best for him now.

monex:


by the NNPC, act they can go to the substantive Minister without recourse to the Minister of State. Ministers of state are incosequential unless powers are delegated to them.

Kachukwu's grouse is being sidelined as chairman of the board and not as Minister of state. however the correspondence from BPE clarifies. As funny as it may seem, it is likely that BARU acted within the law. Kachukwu has been sidelined by his principal (Buhari) so I agree with your last statement that he should resign. he should have resigned long ago

ItsMeAboki:
Where are the regional and tribal champions too quick to twist the whole matter into something else from their usual bigoted perspective; what will they now say after this revelation?
When some ppl believe they are always smarter than everyone else and therefore feel they have a licence to look down on others; they sooner or later often get floored by the least person they ever expected and instead become the very big fools they ironically thought others were.

Kachikwu, seems to be one big example of such educated but foolish persons and a hypocrite as well; because he upheld one of the rules he is now implicitly challenging when it favoured him as then MD.

It is also interesting to note that he is not entirely clean himself and already under EFCC investigation over clandestine siphoning of over 1billion Naira through shady contracts between him and his brother.

Also currently circulating through various platforms of the social media is secretly filmed short clip of his alleged Lagos garage full of exotic cars (mostly Rolls Royce s) easily worth billions.

meforkene:


Leave Kachikwu alone and focus in the two thieves caught red handed,Baru and Buhari.

To simplify it for you lots:

On your way back home,your wicked,jealous and hated neighbour stop you for road,tell you say 2 thieves jump fence enter your compound. You park your motor,begin attack the man say e dey jealous your newly painted fence.

If you like,no go house go find the thieves.

ivandragon:



didn't Kachukwu state that PMB had delegated him to oversee the NNPC?

besides, what would PMB, a man who can't cross-check the spelling of his own name, know about a technical report from the NNPC?

shouldn't he rely more on the experience of his MoS?

anyway, the same why $4b grew wings within 6 months of PMB & nothing happened is the same way this matter will be hushed up.

seunmsg:
Since the minister of petroleum is also the president, the GMD procedurally still must go through the minister of state before reaching the senior minister. If heads of agencies in the oil industry are all allowed access to the president without going through the minister of state, then the minister is extremely useless and inconsequential. He should just resign than staying as an irrelevant minister.

meforkene:
All of you saying Kachikwu should resign for uncovering the biggest heist in the history of Nigeria.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.

Do you wonder why China is so developed now.?
Do you think Africans are more corrupt as Asians?

But if this was China,Baru would get a straight death sentence and Buhari would do a "walk of shame" + Death sentence.

Baru and Buhari are the clear thieves.

Izonpikin:
and you know it’s highly impossible .. ..

nagoma:


Have you seen the EFCC documents on Kachikwu?

jpphilips:


What makes you think so?