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KACHIKWU In Fresh Trouble As He Makes A U-turn Over The $25bn Contract Scam by LastlyFREEDOM: 6:03pm On Feb 14, 2018
Recall that sometime in October, 2017, the letter written to the President by the Minister of State, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, was leaked. In the said letter, the Minister viciously attacked the Group Managing Director of the NNPC for sidelining him in award of contracts and appointments in/ the Corporation. Part of the letter reads:

“Mr. President, yesterday, like many other Nigerians, l resumed work confronted by many publications of massive changes within NNPC. Like the previous reorganizations and reposting done since Dr. Baru resumed as GMD. “I was never given the opportunity before the announcements to discuss these appointments. This is so despite being Minister of State Petroleum and Chairman NNPC Board. “The Board of NNPC which you appointed and, which has met every month since its inauguration and, which by the statutes of NNPC is meant to review these planned appointments and postings was never briefed. Members at the Board learnt of these appointments from the pages of social media and the press release of NNPC.” The Minister prayed Buhari : “That to set the right examples, you approve that the recently announced reorganization changes be suspended until the GMD, myself and the Board have made relevant input to same. This will send a clear signal of process and transparency.”

However, the matter yesterday took another Interesting dimension in open Court where the law office of Iroaganachi & Co filed a Counter affidavit revealing that contrary to Kachukwu’s claims, he supported and approved of all the acts of Dr. Maikanti Baru. The counter affidavit was filed in a suit brought by a Constitutional Lawyer, Barrister Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi, who has approached the Federal High Court seeking to set aside and quash the purported appointment made by Maikanti Baru last year for being illegal and unconstitutional. In a letter dated 12th day of February, 2018.Expressing his surprise at Kachikwu's shifting position, the Lawyer was compelled to write the Minister as follows:

"This present suit was filed in consequence of the revelation that emerged sometime around the 4th day of October suggesting that the GMD has carried on the affairs of the Corporation without carrying you [as the Chairman of the Board] along in taking high-profile decisions that ordinarily he is without statutory powers to take outside of the Board’s input, consent and endorsement. We are therefore worried that a Lawyer could purportedly have entered appearance [on your behalf] to depose to an affidavit to the effect that “all appointments, secondments, postings and or reorganizations with the NNPC at all times was (sic) made with the input, consent and or approval of the Board of Directors of the NNPC”. ; “The Board of Directors did not impugn, controvert and or dispute any postings and or reorganizations effected by the GMD”; “That the Board’s consent and approval was sought and received in all the postings and reorganizations conducted by the GMD…including the latest one undertaken last year”. Kindly refer to paragraphs 3 (l), (m) and (p) of the Counter –affidavit of the Defendants filed in opposition to the Plaintiff’s Originating Summons.
There is no doubt that these depositions belie the revelations in the public space to the effect that the GMD has defiantly left the Board behind in discharging the functions and appointments now being impugned before the Federal High Court by my humble self. Your humble self wrote a letter to Mr. President literary lamenting how MR. KANTI BARU sidelined and side-blinded you in the decision-taking processes eventuating in the award of several contracts and the appointments he made last year. You admitted on different media platforms that you wrote the leaked letter to the President [which is a catalogue of frustrations the GMD has foisted on you contrary to the laws setting up the Corporation] but only said you never knew it would get to the public domain. The said letter and all the publications wherein you admitted having written same would be frontloaded for the guidance of the Court in arriving at the temple of the truth of the whole saga."

"It is therefore mind-boggling and befuddling, if not inconceivable, that you could have purportedly sanctioned any witness to depose under oath that you were carried along by the GMD, that you sanctioned all his actions and that there was never a time the GMD breached any law setting up the Corporations. That might lead to a stage in the proceedings where you might be summoned to be examined/cross-examined in the open court [under oath] on the contents of all the documents [electronic and otherwise] available to the public vis-à-vis the depositions on oath purportedly authorized by the Board you Chair. The Lawyer that you are, the far-reaching implications of the proceedings taking such a dimension both on your integrity, image and that of the government you serve is better left to the imagination."
Re: KACHIKWU In Fresh Trouble As He Makes A U-turn Over The $25bn Contract Scam by NwaNimo1(m): 6:04pm On Feb 14, 2018
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