The Niger Delta Indigenous
Movement for Radical
Change, (NDIMRC) has tackled
President Muhammadu Buhari
over the appointment of Dr.
Maikanti Kacalla Baru as the
new Group Managing Director
of Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC).
In a press statement by its
President, Nelly Emma,
Secretary, John Sailor and
Public Relations Officer (PRO),
Stanley Mukoro, the group
said the removal of Dr.
Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu was
an unfair treatment not only
to the hard-working
technocrat, but to the entire
people of the neglected oil
rich Niger Delta Region.
It said: “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.”
“The appointment of Baru by
the President is not in the
best interest of the nation,
but to satisfy the interest of
the North. It is unfortunate
that the people of the oil-rich
Niger Delta Region are being
treated this way. Kachikwu
brought a lot of changes into
NNPC and the cabal in the oil
and gas industry never liked
him,” the statement said.
The group accused Baru of
working against Kachikwu’s
reforms in the NNPC,
recalling that it had earlier in
April this year called on
Buhari to sack the new NNPC
boss because of his acts of
desperation to head the
organisation.
It insisted that it was
Kachikwu’s dual roles that
gave confidence to the
people of the Niger Delta and
facilitated the peace deals he
negotiated on behalf of the
government.
Commending Kachikwu for his
resilience, NDIMRC noted that:
“Only last month, Kachikwu
against threat to his life and
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. Can 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 Baru as
the man at the helm of affairs
in NNPC is not the best,”
NDIMRC said”.
“As an oil monitoring group,
we are highly disappointed
that the President decided at
this crucial time to leave the
affairs of the NNPC in the
hands of Baru.
“We are not impressed that
President Buhari in his bid to
satisfy the interest of the
north 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 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,”
NDIMRC stated.

SeverusSnape:
Of course they did. We also saw it coming - A bigoted dullard is very predictable.

I won't be surprised if Emefiele is next.

SeverusSnape:
Of course they did. We also saw it coming - A bigoted dullard is very predictable.

I won't be surprised if Emefiele is next.