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| Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Governor, Kaduna State |
While reacting
to the Mallam el-Rufai’s comment in a paper he delivered during the 7th
Professor Wole Soyinka’s birthday lecture on Monday, PENGASSAN’s
Acting General Secretary, Mr. Lumumba
Okugbawa, said instead of “kill the NNPC,” the governor should have called
for the insulation of the corporation from undue political interference that
had distracted the organisation.
According to
PENGASSAN, corruption issue in the NNPC mentioned by the governor was a problem
hindering Nigeria’s growth and development in the oil and gas sector as a
whole, noting: “Let the government deal with the
corruption in the system but not to throw away the baby with the bath water.”
PENGASSAN advised
that instead of killing the NNPC, what the Mallam el-Rufai should have called
for was the reorganisation of the corporation and its subsidiaries to function
effectively with clearer mandate, empowerment and improved financial approval
authority without undue political interference.
It called on
the government to instill in NNPC, the culture of corporate governance and
career management, requiring a legislative review to “ensure
that the board of NNPC is headed by technocrats and not politicians; infuse
compliance with global best practices and competitiveness, responsibility,
transparency and accountability of all accruing revenue and expenditure in the
national oil company; ensure that audit of NNPC and Subsidiaries’ business and
investment relationships, operations, financing, procurements are carried out
and published at appropriate intervals.”
PENGASSAN
said that NNPC was created by an Act of Parliament in 1977 and its
subsidiaries and service units had been subjected to undue political
interference.
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