Minister of
State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has revealed for the first
time the response of President Muhammadu Buhari to the controversial memo on
the
Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Dr.
Maikanti Baru.
It would be
recalled that the minister’s memo raised issues over the conduct of the NNPC
GMD on contracts and appointments.
Kachikwu,
who spoke in Owerri, Imo State at the end of a three-day Nigerian Content
Workshop organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board,
said the content of his letter did not border on fraud but on governance.
He said,
“The conversation has been largely misunderstood to bother on fraud. It was not
on fraud, but on governance and suggestions on ways to go about it. I think a
lot of people got it wrong.
“People
dwell much on issues of sensationalism and leave the main substance. The Group
Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti
Baru, and I are working together as Mr. President had directed to move
forward.”
“Mr.
President has urged the two of us to find ways of working together to remove
doubt and rift.” He added, “Mr. President is a decent man and what he wants to
achieve in this country is to live a legacy for posterity. He is a sincere
leader, so nobody should accuse him of engaging in fraud.”
He commended
the management of NCDMB led by its Executive Secretary, Engr. Simbi Wakote, for
scoring high in her efforts to promote Nigerian content in the oil and gas
sector of the nation’s economy
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