Kachikwu's Removal As NNPC GMD: Group berates Buhari for allegedly acting script of saboteur

The group, Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change, (NDIMRC)

has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for the removal of Dr Emmanuel Ibe

Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National

Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC).
The group claims that President acted the scripts of desperados and

saboteur in the NNPC alleging the former Group Executive Director,

Exploration and Production   of the  Corporation, Dr Maikanti  Kacalla

Baru who replaced Kachikwu has been desperate for the job.

The group alleged that Northern interests led by Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru

have been mounting pressure on Buhari to remove Kachikwu for over a month

now.
In a press statement by its President, Nelly Emma; Secretary, John Sailor

and Public Relations Officer (PRO), Stanley Mukoro and made available to

newsmen on Thursday, the group frown at the sudden removal of Dr Kachikwu

as the GMD of NNPC, describing it as unfair not only to the hard-working

technocrat, but to the entire people of the neglected oil rich Niger Delta

Region.
“The whole world is our witness that we raised the alarm in April this

year that Dr Maikanti Baru was desperate to be the GMD of NNPC and was

mounting pressure on the President to sack Kachikwu and now we have been

vindicated.
“We are sad over the unfair treatment of Dr Kachikwu by the President. The

former GMD was committed to the total reforms of NNPC of which Dr Baru was

against.
“By the sacking of the hard-working Dr Kachikwu at this critical time and

replacing him with a desperate Dr Baru, it is now clear to us as a group

and the whole world that the President is not serious about his promise to

turn NNPC around for the better.
The group alleged that the appointment of Dr Baru by the President is not

in the best interest of the nation, but to satisfy the interest of the

North.
They said that the sudden removal of Kachikwu as GMD has raised concerns

among stakeholders in the region that the administration of President

Buhari has remained adamantly unresponsive to the accusations by the

militants.
The group disclosed that last April, it had revealed that the Adviser On

Gas to the  GMD of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru was behind a devilish rumour

that Dr Kachikwu was sacked adding that Baru has been very desperate to

become the GMD of NNPC and “we warned President Buhari to be wary of him,

but the President never listened.
“It is unfortunate that the people of the oil-rich Niger Delta Region are

being treated this way. Dr Kachikwu brought alot of changes into NNPC and

the Cabal in the Oil and Gas Industry never liked him and rather than

encouraging him to do more for the sector, the President decided to do

otherwise.
“The President has once again made a big blunder with the appointment of

Dr Baru who never wanted the reforms of NNPC  embarked upon by Dr

Kachikwu, the group alleged.
“Without apology, we want to say that Dr Baru do not mean well for the

Corporation. He is a spoiler and  has been too desperate to become the GMD

of the NNPC.
“Dr Baru has never liked the reforms in NNPC and such a desperate man

should not have been allowed to head NNPC as he will ruin the place that

Dr Kachikwu worked so hard to fix up. Dr Baru is not the best man for the

job, they reiterated.
“Only last month, the hard-working Dr Kachikwu against threat to his life

and that of members of his family took a risky trip to the troubled Niger

Delta Region to see things for himself at the controversial Nigerian

Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Gbaramatu Kingdom, in Warri South West

Local Government Area of Delta State and his visit brought hope to the

hopeless people of the region.
“His trip to the area also helped to reduce the spate of attacks on oil

facilities by rampaging militants.
“The President should have honoured Dr Kachikwu for his hardwork. We must

say that we are disappointed with the choice the President made for the

NNPC.
;Can Dr Baru take a trip to the Niger Delta Region? As the new GMD of

NNPC, can he plead with rampaging militants in the Niger Delta Region to

give peace a chance and they will listen to him?
“The choice of Dr Baru as the man at the helm of affairs in NNPC by the

President is not the best.
“As an oil monitoring group, we are highly disappointed that the President

decided to at this crucial time leave the affairs of the NNPC in the hands

of  Dr Baru who helped to destroy the Corporation.
“We are not impressed that President Buhari in his bid to satisfy Northern

Nigeria with more juicy positions at the detriment of the oil producing

people of the Niger Delta Region left the affairs of NNPC in the hands of

a desperate Dr Baru who will only sit in the comfort of his office in

Abuja without thinking about the pains the oil producing people of the

Niger Delta Region are passing through,” the group

further said.
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