Kachikwu says more workers will be sacked from corporation

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August 14, 2015 1:05 PM

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ibe Kachikwu also said that the restructuring would affect all levels of the corporation.

New NNPC GMD Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ibe Kachikwu has said that more workers will be sacked from the corporation as part of efforts to restructure it for better performance and accountability.

Kachikwu also said that the restructuring would affect all levels of the corporation.

He made the comments on Thursday, August 13, 2015, while speaking to journalists at the State House, Abuja after closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

Kachikwu said:

“Things have been done wrongly and things need to be done differently. We are doing a lot of work in terms of repositioning, restructuring, getting the right personnel in key places and setting a culture of accountability and service delivery so that the new NNPC that you are going to see will be a different institution altogether.”

“The restructuring will be complete. I have done the first three layers, from the GEDs to the GGMs and general managers. You are going to have a lot more now. The GEDs and the GGMs will take it to the next layer, which is the lower layer.”

“The whole idea is to go back to being able to look at your appraisals; and how well have you done in the job? If you have done very well, how do we elevate you to a position where you can offer more service? If you have not done well enough, we can retrain you and if you have not done well enough and there is no possibility of retraining you, we will let you go.”

“The NNPC is not a public service. It is a corporation and we run like a company generating money for the people of Nigeria. And so, that whole concept of ‘anything goes’ should stop. And this is the first stage of that whole process.”

“It is three-pronged process that I am pursuing. There is a people aspect, which we are dealing with now. There is a process aspect. And after placing the people at the right places, you are going to get a forensic audit done, that will be able to say to you, ‘this is the state of the company.'"

“It is a very intensive work; very calibrated work. A lot of us are not spending time sleeping but over the next five to six months, you will begin to see a new NNPC. A new process of oil administration in the country and obviously, giving fillip to Mr. President’s dream of taking the oil industry back to where it should be.”

Buhari appointed Kachikwu on August 4, 2015, as a replacement for former GMD, Joseph Dawha.

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