ABUJA, Federal Republic of Nigeria. (Unic Press UK) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) has no plans to sack any of their staff, contrary to the report by several media organisation (Unic Press UK excluded) that the NNPC will soon sack over a thousand staff.
The clarification was made public through a press release by the NNPC on 18 December 2015, which reads:
“Our attention has been drawn to the above report which was published by two daily Newspapers (Peoples Daily and Newswatch Times) on their front pages of Friday the 18th December, 2015.
“The report which was purportedly attributed to the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja stating that the Federal Government had given approval to the Minister to ‘’sack 1,100 staff’’ is as misleading as it is mischievous and a complete misrepresentation of facts.
“For the avoidance of doubt, what the Honourable Minister said at the meeting was that ‘’as part of the reorganization programme of the corporation, half of the over 2,200 staff presently at the corporate headquarters would be redeployed to the subsidiaries with a view to making them more effective.’’
“It is therefore curious for such reputable newspapers to turn the facts of an otherwise clear and unambiguous statement on its head.
“While we don’t want to join issues with any section of the media, we hereby advise that your correspondents should always feel free to contact the office of the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, (GGM,GPAD) for clarification on any issue they are not clear with.”
