The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, said that President
Muhammadu Buhari never interfered in the operations of the
Corporation.
Kyari disclosed this at a media interactive with
National Association of Energy Correspondents in Abuja, on
Friday.
He said that the corporation had the full support of
the president to operate effectively for the growth of the
industry,
” I can tell you that the privileges we have today
in this company of having unfettered control without any
distraction or interference to make decisions and be accountable
and responsible for our decisions has never happened until this
government.
” I can tell you this because I have been around
for 29 years and have worked closely with top management of the
NNPC for about 15 years.
” This is the only president who has never asked
NNPC to do something.
“I have the personal privilege to have access to Mr
President, to his private audience and I can tell you that under no
circumstances has he controlled what we want to do.
“He only
wants to know and be sure that what we are doing is in the best
interest of the country,” he said
He said that migrating to the deregulation of the
downstream oil sector was a huge challenge and difficult decision
for the president as he understood the pain it would put ordinary
Nigerian through.
According to him, the president supported the decision
because government can no longer afford subsidy with harsh economic
impact of COVID-19.
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The GMD said that the Corporation’s new focus was on
gas development as the most resilient source of energy in the
energy transition process.
”The only oil and gas that survived during the
COVID-19 with minimal negative change was gas. Gas will help the
country out of its major challenge of electricity.
”The biggest challenge we have here is to take
electricity to homes, industries and to use the resources we have
to create that energy this country needs.
Today for two reasons we are not getting
electricity because the production is low and we are not able to
transmit it to those who need it.
”That means
there is bottle neck in transmission and distribution system,”
he said
He said that gas had a lot to offer as it created work
and economy that was not existing today noting that it could create
industry with many other benefits.
Kyari maintained that although Nigeria was known as an
oil country it is more a gas nation than oil.
He assured that the Corporation would continue to work
to ensure full gas development in the country for economic
growth.
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