A lot more personnel of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will be sacked soon, the Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has disclosed.
The NNPC boss, who addressed State House correspondent on Thursday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, was responding to a question on how far he would go with the restructuring exercise.
In the last few days, dozens of top management officials have been sacked and new ones appointed at the corporation after Kachikwu was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Kachikwu said the restructuring exercise would be “complete”. He said the recent sack of the NNPC’s management staff would be extended to the lower cadre of the corporation’s workforce based on appraisals.
He said the corporation would elevate those who had done well, retrain those who had not done well and let go those who could not be retrained.
According to him, the idea of anything goes should stop as the NNPC is not public service, but a corporation that is run to generate money for the people of Nigeria.
Kachikwu, who said he would not want to “over critique” an institution he had taken over, however affirmed that things had been done wrongly and should be done differently.
“We’re doing a lot of work in terms of repositioning, restructuring, getting the right personnel in key places and setting a culture of accountability and service delivery so that the new NNPC that you are going to see will be a different institution altogether. It’s A to Z restructuring. I’ve done the first three layers which is going to the Group Executive Directors to Group General Managers and General Managers.
“You’re going to have a lot more (personnel to go) now. The GEDs and GGMs will take it to the next layer which is the lower layer. And the whole idea is to go back to being able to look at your appraisals; how well have you done in the job and if you’ve done very well, how do we elevate you to a position where you can offer more service; if you’ve not done well enough, we can retrain you, and if you’ve not done well enough, and there is no possibility of retraining you, we will let you go.”
