A Niger Delta youths group, the Niger Delta Youth Coalition for Progress and Peace, (NDYCPP) says it plans to honour the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mele Kyari for creating opportunities, transparency and probity.
The NDYCPP, noted that before Kyari assumed office as the
GMD of NNPC there were a lot of unresolved as well as lingering issues that
tend to hamper the oil sector from achieving its full potential.
They said that with the coming on board of Kyari he has convinced
industry watchers of the new direction of the NNPC by making the financial
books open transparently for public probity which have changed the opacity in
the system.
The group's National President, Tiedo Olayinka, made these known in a
statement issued in Yenagoa on Sunday.
He said the NDYCPP plans to honour the GMD during its forthcoming Niger
Delta Youth Entrepreneur on Oil and Gas Summit in December in Port
Harcourt..
According to the group, the summit is aimed at preparing entrepreneurs
and youths from the Niger Delta region to harness opportunities provided by the
policies of the NNPC under the watch of the GMD.
According to the group Kyari is seen as a visionary and
professional manager with a towering repertoire of the inner workings of the
industry, having served in various positions over the years.
The experience , they noted, makes him the right man to head the NNPC,
adding that he has effectively deployed his wealth of experience to bear by
efficiently repositioning the NNPC.
"The NNPC has transformed from opacity to Transparency,
Accountability, Performance and Excellence (TAPE).
"Before his assumption of office as the GMD of the NNPC; there were
a lot of unresolved and knotty issues lingering and hampering the Sector from
achieving its potential.
" From then lingering Petroleum Industry Bill, which is now the
Petroleum Industry Act, constitution of board to superintend one of its
break-up units.
"The OML 25 impasse at Kula in Akuku-toru LGA of Rivers State
between Belema Oil, the Community and Shell SPDC which has been now resolved
amicably and operational activities has resumed in earnest.
"NNPC financial books have never been opened transparently for
public scrutiny over the years but the coming on board of Kyari has changed all
of that opacity and nebulousness in the system.
"Not quite long when Mele Kyari assumed office, the stifling Covid-19
pandemic hit the world economy which adversely affected the petroleum industry
real hard, the price of crude oil sharply in the International market
which affected our revenue earnings drastically but with resilience and careful
handling of affairs we were able to come out stronger.
"The investment issues surrounding train 7 of NNLG in Bonny, Rivers
State, about the concerns of the partners which has also been tactful resolved
and operations are going on smoothly." The statement read in part.
He maintained that industry watchers and stakeholders in the sector can
attest to the fact that Kyari has surpassed all his predecessors for the
past 20 years when this democratic dispensation started in 1999 to date.
"Therefore, Niger Delta youth leaders have concluded plans to
confer on Mele Kyari an Award of Excellence in Public Probity as the GMD of
NNPC in our forthcoming Niger Delta Youth Entrepreneur on Oil and Gas Summit
sometime in December this year in Port Harcourt " the group stated.
The statement commended President Mohammadu Buhari, for appointing
an outstanding and astute industry technocrat as the Group Managing Director of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the NNPC.
The group enjoined the GMD of NNPC to sustain his good works as
posterity shall surely hold him in high esteem as his record of service
delivery will certainly be a golden reference point in the annals of the
Petroleum Industry sub-sector.
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