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Mallam Mele Kyari, GCEO, NNPC Ltd

Niger Delta youth group to honour NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari for transparency, reforms

Mallam Mele Kyari, GMD, NNPC

A Niger Delta youths group, the Niger Delta Youth Coalition for Progress and Peace, (NDYCPP) says it plans to honour the Group Managing Director (GMD) 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 tended 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.

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 Muhammadu 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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