₦airaland Forum

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??

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.

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".

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.

I personally was very disappointed with Kukah in all his remarks in the defence of Jonathan. Why does the black man always develop compassion for the rich thieves but turn around to barbecue his hunger stricken neighbour for stealing maggi cubes?

What some of those in defence of GEJ do not realise is that millions of Nigerians went out of their way to vote an aged despotic ex-military dictator who cannot even speak clear English for a specific reason. A Buhari would have never won an election in Nigeria in the past but there's a specific reason why the people voted for him this time, it is simply for him to hunt down and punish treasury looters. As for me and my house, even if Buhari turns Nigeria to Singapore in 4 years, if treasury looters are not arrested and given long jail terms, then Buhari would have failed me and millions of other well meaning Nigerians out there.

Hmmm... and some cretins have been in celebration mood claiming that PMB's US trip was a mission in futility. May God forgive those people.

Anyway, thank God the football season has resumed, now a large percentage of all those bitter minded haters wishing Nigeria evil would be distracted by something else but politics.

Reference:
But what is the Federal Government doing about it. Civil works throughout the country has ground to a halt. Nothing is happening. FERMA which is responsible for continual remedial works no longer exists. Just cutting across that road to let the mud drain away is the simplest of things that can be done. Calabar will soon be completely cut off from the rest of the country except by air as the main highway has failed in several sections.

A number of new state governors have embarked on emergency road rehabilitation. Why is the Federal government so slow. Is it the only arm beset with financial challenges. Why can't it get the country moving months after ascension. Why is it so distracted by irrelevancies.

What do you regard as irrelevance?.. Is it the fight against terrorists or the fight against corruption?.... Is it the steps being taken to block leaking holes in the ministries before appointing ministers or is it the contracting of auditing firms to help investigate and possibly recover looted billions from NNPC?... What exactly did you just trivialise as 'irrelevance'?

Are you aware corruption in higher places is our single biggest problem which has kept Nigeria in the league of 3rd world countries?... Is it the steps being taken to fight this monster that you just trivialised as irrelevance?

Are you aware it is because of this same corruption in high places that the road in question is in its present sorry state?.... A contract was awarded through NDDC to dualise this road almost 10 years ago yet the only bit of the road that is good was constructed by Rivers state government out of frustration. Up till today, nobody knows what happened to the funds released by NDDC for this road and several administrations have passed with no one giving a damn or asking questions; now we have an administration that wants to look into this particular issue and here we have someone calling it irrelevance.

What is even wrong with the black man?!

ELTON123:
amaechi come and see oo

The irony of this your comment is that Amaechi is actually the hero when this road is concerned. This is a federal road which connects Imo to Rivers state and the only good section of the road is the Rivers state axis which was fixed by Amaechi, of which the FG refused to refund Rivers state till the last minute.

The most scandalous aspect of this mess was when some devilish GEJ supporters before the elections kept spreading falsehoods by including this road as one of the nonexistent achievements of GEJ in the south east. As a matter of fact, the saTANists quoted this particular road twice in the list of GEJ's achievements in the SE; it was listed twice as PH to Owerri and Elele to Owerri. Yet, this is the sorry state of the road.

But God delivered us from the GEJ virus of scam achievements.

By the way, shame on all those blaming Rochas for not fixing a federal road.

Shekau1:
You have to Mr cause not everything u read here is true, you need to go there and get first hand Information so that you can bit your chest when agueing. It's not only cause of Stomach Infrastructure they voted Fayose as governor, their last governor was also heartless by not paying their salaries and so many things, you can go to Ekiti and ask them why they Prefer Fayose Insted your here asking people that don't even live there. I repeat stop Mastubating in the affairs of Ekiti state

I do not know why you are being unnecessarily emotional over a simple question.... "what is the Fayose doing in Ekiti?"... It was a very simple question and I specifically expected someone living in ekiti to respond. I do not intend to travel to ekiti and I do not plan to any time soon. I also did not intend to doubt or argue about any genuine response from an ekiti resident and neither did I have any intention to criticis anyone. But here we are, a Shekau pseudonym is attacking me viciously for absolutely nothing and asking me to travel to ekiti to get a one sentence answer.... I give up bro!.. and remember, elections are over. Maybe I should just ignore shekau and concentrate on the responses of others.

Shekau1:
If your truly want to know how your compatriot is faring, come to Ekiti state and stop Mastubating in the affairs of the state.

In this age of information technology, I don't have to go all the way to Ekiti to know how people in Ekiti are faring. Stop reasoning like you are living in the primitive era.

Shekau1:
I would be glad to know too how is that your business since your not living or an indigene of Ekiti state

I am a Nigerian, it is my business to know how my compatriots are faring.

Somethimes I just can't help but wonder, what is Fayose doing in terms of governance in Ekiti state?... Apart from eating from one roadside buka to the other or buying kpomo or tomato or attacking the federal government, what is Fayose doing in his state in terms of infrastructure?

Would be glad to see pictures or just testimonies from people living in Ekiti.

What about his sight?... I thought they said he was going blind?

Kaii... Nigerian politicians are a shameless lot...

lol... At least he would now have the time to attend the crash course on opposition politics.

After they will tell us witches/wizards/demons are spirits.... Even when we have worse humans

bushdoc9919:
Did you know that Space Bookers have a high chance of becoming millionaires by the time they are 40 years of age?

Did you know that Space Bookers also have a high chance of playing football for Nigeria in their sixties?

You cant really blame the space bookers, you know Nigerians don't like reading and 80% of people visiting the thread wouldn't read beyond the first page, 95% wouldn't read beyond the second page and 99% wouldn't read beyond the first comment on the third page.

So if your opinion must be heard, you have to find a way of siting it in a choice plot of land in a high brow area.

divinehand2003:
Hope the spendings of all the political parties during the just concluded 2015 elections would also be audited?
But this Price water House Cooper did not do a thorough audit of NNPC the last time under Oga Jona. Hope they are now set to do a much better job this time around?

handie:
Is this not the same PWC the previous job given to them? Why encourage mediocrity? Are there no other reputable accounting firms around? How are u sure the PWC won't want to save face by toeing the earlier already established line in the NNPC missing money probe in order to show that they were right and wasn't compromised? Ok. They said they were carried out the last audit in a political environment. Ethically, are they not supposed to stop the audit and quit instead of giving out false, inaccurate and incomplete reports?

Bawsse:
PWC again?

I just hope they don't compromise on their standards again....
Deloitte or EY shudda been brought in, if u ask me.

anonimi:
The same firms Jonathan used right

Who audited these accounts during OBJ's time?

How can the petroleum minister who is a prime suspect in the case be the judge in her own case?... That is not done anywhere in the world except in Nigeria. PWC still remains one of the greatest auditing firms worldwide and they certainly did not compromise, they only did what they were paid for and they clearly stated that in their report.

The previous pwc audit was just a waste of time and money by the Nigerian government in a well calculated move to deceive the Nigerian populace. How can you audit NNPC finances when the NNPC and CBN refused to cooperate?. PWC only produced a blank paper to justify the money they were paid.

However, this time around, I would like to see how NNPC or CBN would close their books from pwc or kpmg. Interesting days are ahead and I'm sure a lot of us would be depressed when the true magnitude of the rot is unearthed.

Flets:
The trainee president is learning on the job

This is coming after he set up a committee made up of Oshiomole, elrufai etc to probe excess crude accounts. Career politicians who couldn't even calculate the amounts in their pocket tasked with probing on the pages of the national dailies.

He would have also nominated Okorocha, Tinubu and Aregbesola to probe NNPC and CBN....... Dumb dinosaur

Here goes another one of them, scared to hell that his hero's criminal incompetence and administrative recklessness is about to be exposed.

Calling people names will not stop the truth from prevailing very soon.

divinehand2003:
Price water House Cooper again? I thought they did a very bad job the last time they did an audit of NNPC?
Abeg make dem go yansh down joor.

Did you bother reading the pwc report?... even if you didn't, at least you must have followed the discussions about the report here on nairaland. Can you imagine a case where the petroleum minister who's the chief culprit/suspect is the judge in her own case by being the one who contracted pwc?...

The previous pwc audit was just a waste of time and money because the NNPC and CBN did not cooperate with pwc. PWC just produced a blank paper to justify the money they were paid but this time, I would like to see how NNpc or Cbn would close their books from pwc or kpmg.

Ahmeduana:
AM SO SORRY, I NEVER KNEW THAT YOU ARE AN OBJECTIVE PERSON!

I have no idea what you are talking about... I am passionate about seeing a better Nigeria and I know there's a time for jokes and a time to be be serious.

ayindejimmy:
What's your definition of robust?
4 pages is not robust enough..
Some politicians won't even bother to give any clarification.
He has clarified the issue... But you still want robust

By robust, I mean 'convincing.'

In all honesty, I must confess, this response seems empty to me... I expected something more 'robust.'

Did anybody say they were real before? Did anyone actually think the picture was real?

Akpabio seems to be the only governor turned senator that is active since the history of our present democracy... All other governors who go to the NASS just turn to ghost workers.

Brightology2:
U're a very big fool,4 calling who u dn't kn a boy,hediot

And you are now the mouthpiece of the person you dont know?... animal!

nnachukz:
really? who made the first claim that Ghana is managing our airspace? PDP or Buhari? Buharians lack shame.

Calm down boy... Buhari only became president 3 months ago and to have made that statement, he was only reading from a script (handover notes) handed over to him by the PDP.

Flets:
At the end of 4years, no serious international group or individual will take Buhari's words seriously.

Our ancient president is stuck between dementia and immense propaganda.

He said US gave him crude looters list, the US govt denied that

He said he reached an greement for arms deal before heading to the US, the US govt denied him with Leahy's law

He said the US will help him recover the stolen loot in their economy, the US/ UK turned back to point him to Asia and some parts of Europe to find the stolen funds

West Germany, President Michelle, All people's confidence etc are popular words attributed to our dinosaur

Buhari should stop talking.... Osibande should start talking on his behalf. Enough of the embarrasments.

For all the things you've just listed that PMB said, did you hear him or his official spokespersons say them? or did you hear about them from some silly blogs? Or are they just products of your imagination?

Obviously, no one has been managing or securing the Nigerian airspace for a long time. The PDP in their usual schemes must have looted the monies meant for this and then deceived the entire nation that the airspace is being managed by Ghana.

Now parade has changed gear and the truth is beginning to fall out, albeit in an embarassing way for the new governement.

I smell another probe.

drss:
A look at Nigeria's history will reveal that Nigeria had only four non military leaders since independence. These guys are:

1. Nnamdi Azikiwe 1960-1966
2. Tafawa Balewa 1960-1966
3. Shehu Shagari 1979-1983
4. Shonekan. 1993-1993
5. Goodluck Jonathan. 2010-2015

These men were Nigeria's most democratic leaders who never belong to the military establishment. But the irony of the whole thing is that, despite the fact that they were the most democratic individuals Nigeria ever had, they were all kicked out in an unceremonial manner.

- Nnamdi and Tafawa balewa were booted out through military coup in 1966.
-Shehu Shagari was overthrown in 1983 coup, three weeks after being sworn in for second term.
-Shonekan was flinged-out in 1993. He spend only 3 months in power.
Finaly GEJ was elected-out of office through a well planned conspiracy in 2015. He was defeated by his opponent, a former military man. The same individual who kicked Shagari out in 1983. SMH
All these leaders share one thing in common; They were all removed unceremoniously by military men. When we consider the fact that the military ruled Nigeria more than the civilians, it will be safe to say that the country, Nigeria is owned by the military establishment.
The big question now is, are Nigerians democracy loving citizens? Or are they just hypocritical dictatorship loving people?

Jonathan was a failure of a leader, that's the only reason why he was kicked out; that's the only reason why he could even have been kicked out.

You guys should stop all this rubbish talk about conspiracy. GEJ's incompetence is the only conspiracy that kicked him out. It's rather unfortunate that only people from a particular section of the country (the SE) were blind and are still blind to the incompetence of GEJ even though the rest of Nigerians and even foreigners could see it. Even my SS friends agree that GEJ was incompetent but they supported him only cos he was their brother...

I'm tired of hearing this 'conspiracy' blab.

FearGodinall:
. What's your point are your disputing the harliburton scandal is a scam or what? To get it done the fight of corruption must be inclusive, as he's mr integrity that can never be compromised,how many member panel has been set up for that if not the fear of those involved? In fact that should have been the center of his discussion with Obama if not of the fear of those involved on his trip to the US when our 183m USD is hanging on the thin air. Concentrate on the message and not the messenger, as event evolve, we are watching.

I did not dispute the halliburton scandal, neither am I disputing the people involved. But if you could read my message again, maybe you could pick out what I was disputing which is "PMB's fear of EXPOSURE prevented him from continuing the case"

The hustle is real... ManWoman must wack!