Group Laments Official NNPC Complicity In Oil Export Shortfall

The Community Development Committee, CDC of the Niger Delta Oil Producing and Gas Producing Areas has tasked the mangatemnt of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over its failure to address the recurring allegations of oil theft from the crude pipelines.

Alleging official complicity, the group in a statement made available to GWG.NG alleged that the spike in cases may mean the lack of capacity on the part of the management of the NNPC Limited to handle the situation.

The group particularly lamented the fact that Nigeria is unable to meet its OPEC quarter, a development it said, rests squarely on Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director.

In the statement issued by Comrade Joe Ambakederimo and made available to GWG.NG, the group said:

 1. The recent revelations coming out of the oil and gas sector which has been the economic mainstay of the nation has once again bring to the fore a country that is blighted with unimaginable level of corruption that is not abating.

 2. The revelation by the Group Executive Managing Director  Mele Kyari of the NNPC Limited is enough for him to have resigned his position or be sacked by the board . This has to be so because the NNPC Limited now a public company that is governed  by the Companies and Allied Matters Act must be managed by competent and people with proven character and managerial skills for profitability.

 3. The GEMD of the NNPC Limited have been carrying on without any modicom of remose. While responding to the NASS committee and the revelation of this illegal pipelines a couple of days ago shows a man that comes across as irresponsible on the discharge of his responsibility and leadership of a main revenue earning agency for the country.

 4. Although this revelations are not new, except we all continue to play to the gallery as if the heavens want to fall on all of us. For us the revelation is for those who discovered this illegal pipeline to tell us more what they know and who the perpetrators are rather than presenting themselves as patriots just to hoodwink Nigerians one more time.

 5. We need more and compelling disclosures from these persons that have overnight discovered this illegal pipeline because mobilising resources and equipment and materials to execute this project is not achieved in one day and people in the environs and officials of the IOCs and Security services that are scattered all over the rivers and creeks want to now absolve themselves??

  6. The promise of the attainment of 3 million Barrls of crude oil per day by Mele Kyari has now become a mirage.

Presently what nigeria produces is less than one million Barrels per day far less than  what we produce when he assumed office. Meaning our production is depleting at an astronomical level under Mele’s watch. If this is not failure we wonder what it is.

 7. The Direct Sale- Direct Purchase (DSDP) scheme initiated by him has become a cesspit of corruption. We do not know how many barrels of crude oil is shipped out for refining and what volume of refined products are brought back into the country, who monitors and check if the country is getting the commensurate amount of products and how many refined products are shipped back, and what other by-products is deriavable from the refining process of the crude being shipped out and at what cost to the NNPC.

  8. All of the above are shrouded in secrecy and anytime questions are asked for clarification on these matters we are always met with confrontation. Why??

 9. Production Cost Reduction as promised under his watch is yet to attain any significant impact as cost of production of one barrel of crude oil still remains high due largely to  many breaches in the tendering and procurement process of the international oil-gas companies as a result of interference from the headship of the regulatory agency such as National Petroleum Investment Services (NAPIMS) to line their pockets rather than save the  country from financial haemorrhage.

 10. Tender processes for drilling activities on assets that will increase the country’s daily production are skwed in favour of only companies the NNPC officials have interest even if such companies bids are higher they don’t bloody care so long they can make premium for themselves robbing the country they are fine.

11. From all indication the cost of production of one barrel of crude oil in Nigeria today is highest in the world hence there is massive divestment by the IOCs from Nigeria to other countries where the oil and gas business is conducted with some sense of decorum and manageable corruption. No doubt Nigeria has lost it’s leadership position to smaller countries overtaking us on daily production and meeting OPEC quota.

 12. Few days after Mele’s inauguration, he  unfolded his Transparency, Accountability and Performance Excellence (TAPE) agenda, a five-step strategic roadmap for NNPC’s attainment of efficiency and global excellence. This agend unknown to Nigerians is to pull the wool over our eyes and has since been mired in many corruptible tendencies.

 13. What has the  NNPC henchman achieved when he  set the second quarter of 2021 as the deadline for the attainment of $10 per barrel production cost benchmark. Let him tell Nigerians and we shall expose him and his cartel and their modus-operandi on how they short- change the country in collusion with the International oil companies (IOCs)

14. The oil and gas industry under Mele Kyari has been basterdized contrary to our initially held views of an astute technocrat taking over the saddle to do things differently when he was appointed by the President in 2019.

15. We never knew he was so incompetent and corrupt, he has shown gross irresponsibility, dereliction of duty and come short of the expected leadership to manage the affairs of the NNPC limited.

 16. We therefore call on the Group Executive Managing Director to resign or forced out by the board except all of them in the board are complicit.

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