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PENGASSAN Issues Reply To El-Rufai’s Call To ‘Kill NNPC’

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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has faulted the call by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai to scrap the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) saying political interference is the bane of the corporation.

In a swift reaction to the comments made by the governor on Monday, July 13, 2015 during the 7th Professor Wole Soyinka’s birthday lecture, the acting secretary general of PENGASSON, Mr. Lumumba Okugbawa, said instead of “kill the NNPC,” the governor should have called for the stoppage of political interference and interference the corporation is being subjected to.

The Vanguard reported that PENGASSAN said the issue of corruption in the NNPC raised by the governor was hindering growth and development in the oil and gas and Nigeria as a whole.

“Let the government deal with the corruption in the system but not to throw away the baby with the bath water.”

PENGASSAN argued that rather than “kill the NNPC”, the governor should have called for the reorganization of the corporation and its subsidiaries to function with clearer mandate, empowerment without undue political interference.

PENGASSAN called on the government to instil the culture of corporate governance and career management, in the NNPC.

The association there was need for 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.”

According to the association,  NNPC created by an Act of Parliament in 1977, its subsidiaries and service units had been subjected to undue political interference.

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