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The best option is for him to resign and leave the clueless administration. Imagine the NNPC GMD sidelining the Minister. Northern hegemony at work. Buhari's nepotism cannot allow for the best hands in any parastatal. It is only in government that Northerners excel more than everyone but can't compete in anything else. This administration failed before it started. To think I supported Buhari's election, refused to compromise my integrity as a corps member acting as presiding officer, declared free zobo for all corpers in my lodge when he won hoping for better governance, only for Buhari to show his true colours and fall my hand. I have learnt my lesson the hard way.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachiukwu, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari to complain about his humiliation in the hands of the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru. Dr. Kachiukwu also informed the President of Dr. Baru’s penchant for sidestepping due process in running the NNPC. The complaints of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources were contained in a memo addressed to President Buhari and obtained by SaharaReporters.

Dated 30 August and titled “Matters of Insubordination and Lack of Adherence To Due Process Perpetuated by GMD NNPC-Dr. Baru, the memo (HMS/MPR/001/Vol.1/100) opened with a complaint by Dr. Kachiukwu’s complaint to the President about postings within the corporation done without his knowledge.

“Mr. President, yesterday, like many other Nigerians, I resumed work confronted by many changes within NNPC. Like many reorganization and reposting are 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,” Dr. Kachiukwu wrote.

The Minister of State (Petroleum Resources) also complained that the NNPC Board, which has met monthly since inauguration by the President, was never briefed of the postings and appointments. The Board, he added, has statutory duty to review the appointments. Its members, said Dr. Kachiukwu, got to know of the appointments via the social media and NNPC press release.

“At a minimum and like other parastatals supervised by me at the Ministry have continued to do and in compliance with proper governance standards expected of a multinational oil sector organization,” Dr. Kachiukwu stated.

He added that he came into the job with a lot of desire to make positive changes and has succeeded in making some of the envisaged transformation. However, he claimed that he would have been more successful, but for the alleged misbehavior by Dr. Baru.

“I have been on a race to stabilize and move the industry to the next phase. Timing is critical. The sector is also in a critical state where only innovative ideas can stop the alarming impact of the fall of oil prices on national income. The innovations that we have developed and started implementing in the downstream, upstream, policy generation and Niger Delta security have enabled the sector to aggressively pursue out of the box ideas of rejuvenating this sector, getting the best yield and increasing our earnings from Oil and Gas. What this means is that parastatals in the Ministry and all CEOs of these parastatals must be aligned with the policy drive of the supervising ministry to allow the sector register the growth that has eluded it for years. To do otherwise or to exempt any of the parastatals would be to emplace a stunted growth in the industry,” complained Dr. Kachiukwu.

In addition to his complaints, the NNPC Board Chairman asked the President to, among other things, save the NNPC and the oil industry from collapse arising from lack of transparency instituted by Dr. Baru. The minister also begged the President to save his office from further humiliation and disrespect by compelling all parastatals under it to submit to oversight mandate and proper supervision, which he was appointed to manage of the President’s behalf. He equally urged President Buhari to instruct Dr. Baru to allow NNPC run properly and report along due process lines to the Board.

Dr. Kachiukwu called on President Buhari to set the right examples by suspending the recently made appointments in the NNPC and encourage joint presentation meetings between heads of parastatals and the Minister of State to him (President) as a way of encouraging better work ethic and ensuring discipline.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/03/minister-state-ibe-kachiukwu-writes-president-buhari-complains-humiliation-nnpc-group

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Imagine the NNPC GMD sidelining the Minister. Northern hegemony at work. Buhari's nepotism cannot allow for the best hands in any parastatal. It is only in government that Northerners excel more than everyone but can't compete in anything else. This administration failed before it started.

9japrof:
Please yiu are misinformed, strive owns kwese decoder which would be launching officially soon though it has been selling and am using their service already

That he owns Kwese decoder doesn't mean he didn't invest in TSTV. At the same time, it's not a bad thing that he's the largest investor. It makes the market more competitive and that benefits consumers.

TSTV's biggest investor is Strive Masiyiwa, a Zimbabwean and former CEO of ECONET Wireless. It's good for competition but be careful when you say 'it's our own'

Greatzeus:
All of you congratulating her,hope you know this is her 4th term.If it's African leaders now we call them greedy and power drunk. What is she doing that any new person cannot do.

It's allowed by the German constitution and she didn't write it herself. It's a 4 term limit for everyone. And it is real democracy. If you manage to get a 4th term in an enlightened democratic space like Germany, you must be doing the right thing.

The difference is that the power drunk and despotic leaders of yours in Africa write the constitution themselves, keeps tweaking it to elongate their tenure and keeps manipulating elections and suppressing the opposition. That's why you can have a family rule for 50 years.

There's no basis for comparison Bro. There's no sense in doing that.

Bolustical:
Imagine a pastor questioning the benefits of a rail line?

So because Daura is the hometown of the President, it doesn't deserve attention? It means a rail line cannot pass through it?

The pastor has indirectly insulted the whole people of Daura as if there are no commercial activities there.

If the Bishop was knowledgeable enough, he would know that almost every local government in the north contribute to the national food basket and thus a railway line wouldn't be bad for transportation.

I hope he questioned GEJ as to why he preferred to site the Federal University in Otuoke instead of Yenogoa.

The question is 'what is the economic viability of a rail line traversing Daura? Can it pay for itself?' It's purely an economic question. Stop with the propaganda.

God will not forgive GEJ, Diezani and their cronies.

Global oil prices are low and will remain so even in the distant future. At the same time, countries are announcing plans to exit the use of fossil fuels via electrical cars and investments in green energy. Nigeria should be responding by developing a concrete plan to wean herself of dependency on oil by diversifying her economic base and revenue sources but these daft people are busy searching for more oil where it does not exist. What a pity to be born into a country of daftness where people don't think ahead. The commodity super-cycle is over, Mr. Buhari.

Global oil prices are low and will remain so even in the distant future. At the same time, countries are announcing plans to exit the use of fossil fuels via electric cars and investments in green energy. Nigeria should be responding by developing a concrete plan to wean herself of dependency on oil by diversifying her economic base and revenue sources but these daft people are busy misapplying scarce resources searching for more oil where it does not exist. What a pity to be born into a country of daftness where people don't think ahead. The commodity super-cycle is over, Mr. Buhari.

Nigeria is like those kids they call 'every year young'. A country that never grows up. Always begging for foreign aid and assistance while mismanaging local resources. Imagine begging for donations from a small country with a GDP of $37b not even up to 8% of our GDP. Begi begi country, don't grow up and solve your self-inflicted problems.

dokiOloye:
There are 13 local government areas in Ebonyi state,but U ppl want to suffocate us with propaganda just because Umahi tarred some roads and did street lighting in d state capital,which is a tiny part of Abakaliki and Ebonyi local government areas.
Meanwhile, even hawkers whose whole wares amount to less than 1000naira now pay tax in Ebonyi state now,civil servants have their salaries slashed into 2 with d same tax and yet nothing is happening in any other place in d state apart from d state capital and Uburu where U and the governor comes from.
In everything you are doing, remember diaris Godu oooo.

Don't mind the idiots.

freshest4live:
What challenge do you want him to talk about and what would be the advantage?

So, you don't know the advantage in putting our national and continental interests in front of the global assembly? You should ask him why he attended the UNGA in the first place.

Average. Wasted too much time talking about the rest of the World while ignoring the challenges in his own country and Africa, in general.

That's quite a sensible advice.

Let's hope he doesn't get to disgrace us. If Nigeria was a sane clime, Buhari wouldn't qualify to represent this country on the global stage. We have global stars and yet, we always field the worst of us. Nigerians deserve better.

First time that I'm with Saraki.

Paperwhite:
Arewa Youths-issuers of the infamous "quit notice" now having intelligence report? Nigerian case is just hopeless.Does these idiots have any intel on the whereabout of Shekau? Meanwhile the AG have belatedly told Nigerians why these sacred cows can't be arrested but they want Kanu arrested? It'll never be well with Buhari's government.

They can't have intelligence on Shekau because they're one with him.

Arewa youths are now Nigeria's intelligence officials. What a messed up country. Real terrorists blackmailing others with terrorism.

Aufbauh:
Of a truth, this is one of the most unbiased lawyer we've had in this country in recent years.

Not in recent years. He has been there in the trenches fighting injustice and oppression. It's just that good people don't get recognized in this weird clime.

Throwback:
Kanu wants to be popular, Nigeria will provide him with the world stage as a notorious terrorist.
Even UK will outlaw him from returning to the country.

I pity his son.

Your father is a terrorist.

I am not surprised that a man who is recorded on camera to have commanded his supporters to burn down Nigeria, will have a storage of explosives in his house. The same man also promised that the army that enters Biafra will not depart alive.

I am not surprised at all.

You sound pathetic!

malware:
Buhari has not lived to expectations of many Nigerians, but I believe there are forces designed to frustrate his administration including the Biafran agitation which was hitherto non-existent or rather, low-keyed.

He exacerbated it with his open hatred and exclusion of a particular group.

Yes, Biafra is an idea. The only way to defeat it is to provide a superior counter-narrative and not by brute force and mass murder. What is the opportunity cost of leaving Nigeria? How is staying in Nigeria a better deal for those who want a separate state and national identity? Provide a superior argument, not a military invasion.

Alariwo2:
I used to like the girl honestly.. apparently she ain't different from the others here.

Kanu that has been instigating violence deserves to be pampered according to their useless logic while a sitting president has no right to maintain peace and order in his country.

Let her keep wallowing in her folly with her biafra brothers. Nairaland is meant for Nigerians not some seccesionists

So, you support mass murder and extra-judicial killings just because it is not happening in your own backyard. You want her to be happy and clap for the govt for killing people she shares an identity with extra-judicially? You guys are really heartless.

seunmsg:
The world is well aware of the agitation of Catalonians, yet, they still can't achieve their aim. A peaceful Nigeria can work for everybody, let's give peace a chance.

Yes to peace with fairness, justice, and equality. No to peace with exclusion and injustice.

Rubbish. Soldiers with guns and bullets are not supposed to be in civilian spaces in the first place.

The military are pathetic liars

Misleading title

You would expect Buhari to show astute leadership in times of crisis. But again, he would not fail to disappoint.

maximunimpact:
When I first visited Abakiliki in 2006 for my post utme, I said if I don't get admitted I will not regret it. Thst was because of the terrible state of the town. It is amazing that in just two years a governor is able to implement a transformation like this. This now makes me ashamed of being a Delta State indigene, just like Ebonyians were before. In my state, we receive the third largest federal allocation but Asaba the state capital is in a terrible state. From ibori to Uduaghan and now clueless Okowa, there's no plan in sight for any meaningful development. Even the governor with 42 sets of teeth have already begun a second term campaign not minding the fact that workers are hungry, Some ministries shut because he couldn't renew office rent and with zero drainage in Asaba. I weep for Delta State.

Abakaliki has always been organized and beautiful.

Very bad. This is enough distraction for the students already. To regain composure and write would be a problem.