The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has
distanced the national oil company and its Group Managing Director, Dr.
Maikanti Baru from the ongoing political tango in the National Assembly
and the trending reports in some section of the media insinuating that the
Corporation’s helmsman had doled out funds to effect the impeachment of
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki .
The Corporation in a terse statement issued by its Group General Manager,
Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, described the report as the
handiwork of mischief makers seeking to drag the NNPC and its GMD into a
purely political affair totally different from its mandate as the national
oil company with fiduciary responsibilities to the government and people
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The NNPC emphasized that the report is not only false but also an affront
on the verifiable reforms in the operations of the corporation under the
remit of Dr. Baru which has witnessed irreversible strides in the area of
transparency leading to the sustained publication of NNPC monthly
operations and financial records.
The statement added that it is mere fiction and outright ‘’tales by
moonlight’’ for anybody to insinuate that Dr. Baru or anybody else could
just take a dip into the Corporation’s till and dole out the volume of
funds being portrayed in that phantom report for political purpose.
The Corporation called on all well-meaning members of the public and oil
and gas industry stakeholders to discountenance the said story noting that
the Management of the NNPC remains committed to its statutory role and
responsibility to the entire federation.