Why NNPC Redeployed Top Personnel In Major Shake-up

The management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained why top personnel of the corporation were redeployed and two other senior officials existed from the firm.

NNPC, in a statement on Sunday said the new appointments and redeployments are part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition NNPC for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability in line with the Next Level agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

It would be recalled that the Chief Operating Officer in charge of Joint Ventures and Business Development of the NNPC, Roland Ewubare, had resigned last week.

Ewubare, who hails from Delta State, was the former Chief Operating Officer, Upstream of the corporation before he was moved to head the joint ventures and business development from where he voluntarily retired.

Another official, the Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, Farouk Sa’id, had also last week retired after decades of service.

Announcing Ewubare and Mr Sa’id’s replacements and other redeployments in a statement on Sunday, NNPC said Adokiye Tombomieye, the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream while Mohammed Ahmed, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, following the retirement of Farouk Sa’id, last week.

Adeyemi Adetunji, the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, was redeployed to the Ventures & Business Development Directorate as COO, the position left by Mr Ewubare.

The top-level staff movement also affected Billy Okoye who has been redeployed from the NNPC Downstream Company, NNPC Retail Limited, as Managing Director, to replace Mr Tombomieye as the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division; while Elizabeth Aliyuda, the General Manager, Sales and Marketing, NNPC Retail Limited, takes over from Mr Okoye as Managing Director.

Similarly, Usman Farouk, Executive Director, Asset Management and Technical Services at the NGMC takes over from Mr Ahmed as Managing Director.

According to the statement, President Buhari has accepted the resignation of Mr Ewubare and the retirement of Mr Sa’id.

Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mele Kyari, was quoted as saying the new appointments would enable the corporation to live up to the expectation of her shareholders, Nigerians, and give impetus to the ongoing restructuring within the corporation, which, he said, was in line with the corporate vision of Transparency, Accountability & Performance Excellence (TAPE).

The statement was signed by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Kennie Obateru.