The National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN) has Friday 26th, July 2024 urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to shun foreign interference and distractors in the NNPCL system, while demanding transparency and accountability in it operations.
The Council in a press statement signed by the Executive Director, Amb. Blessing Akinlosotu, during a Press conference in Abuja Nigeria yesterday, outlined the importance of NNPCL’s commitment to transparency and accountability, especially given its critical role in Nigeria’s economy.
Amb. Akinlosotu while addressing the press, stated that the Council perceives a deliberate plot in some quarters that are both politically and economically motivated to frustrate the ongoing reforms in the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria and transformation in the NNPCL, he said detractions in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) are both “internal forces of economic saboteurs and high-level international business actors” who must be dealt with.
Akinlosotu stressed that NNPCL must rid itself of corrupt tendencies and bad eggs, live above board at all times, and sustain transparency and accountability as its hallmark without compromise.
By doing so, NNPCL can regain public trust, ensure efficient management of resources and contribute to Nigeria’s economic growth and development.
“The Council’s call for transparency and accountability serves as a reminder to NNPCL to maintain the highest standards of integrity and openness in its operations.”
Further more he said the Council sympathizes with the Management of the NNPCL on their unenviable and herculean task of Reforming and Rebranding a battered organizational image of the former NNPC to a desirous and acceptable bride, which is worsened by cleverly articulated conspiracies aimed at discrediting the Federal Government, and arousing contempt against President Tinubu
He concluded that “If the system is now truly rebirthed as we believe it to be, then Transparency and Accountability must be sustained as hallmark without compromise at any point.