Topic: DPR Interview; How did it go, guyz?

Originally Posted by SAKABU

Who told you that the 59Billion was released
That is what was just defended and we are waiting for house to pass the budget by next week...

2012 BUDGET: N' ASSEMBLY QUERIES DPR
The National Assembly on Thursday queried the N30 billion set aside by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in the 2012 budget as its recurrent expenditure.
The Committees on Petroleum Upstream and Downstream and the Committee on Gas Development in the two chambers of the National Assembly handed down the query to DPR when the management of the agency and other heads of parastatals in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources appeared before the joint committee for 2012 budget defence.
The lawmakers were furious that DPR planned to devote over 80 per cent of its budget fund to recurrent expenditure at the expense of capital budget.
Specifically, the lawmakers noted that DPR earmarked N30.399 billion out of its N35.89 billion budget for recurrent expenditure.
Chairman of Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, raised issues concerning the huge overhead costs in the petroleum sector.
He described the trend as “worrisome.”
Paulker insisted that ministries and parastatals should strive to raise capital votes above recurrent expenditure.
He said that the ministry failed to present its expenditure for 2011 and directed the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to furnish the committee with the details latest Monday.
The implication of the N30 billion personnel cost is that on the average, a staff of the DPR receives about N2 million every month, irrespective of cadre.
Senator Gbenga Ashafa blew the whistle on the over bloated recurrent expenditure when he said that N35.89 billion was allocated to the DPR with over N30 billion personnel cost.
He lamented that “this year another over bloated personnel cost has been allocated to DPR.”
According to him, N21.945 was allocated as personnel cost to DPR in 2010; N24 billion for the same purpose in 2011 while N30.399 billion was allocated to the agency in 2012 budget proposal.
The Lagos State born lawmaker said that his worry was that DPR has a workforce of less than 1500.
To make matters worse, he noted that the staff strength of the DPR has remained constant since 2010.
The lawmakers also wanted to know why the Petroleum Industry Bill budget of N17.3 billion in 2011 was depleted by about N9 billion when the Bill was not passed.

Originally Posted by vin20

what i mean that budget can not be responsible for an advert that was on since 2008 and national budget can,t be responsible for it, but if u say the ministry internal budgt i may agree bcos now it needs NASS approval, but the main delay is petroleum industry bill that is not passed but thank God there promise doing so b4 3rd quart of this yr.

2012 BUDGET N' QUERIES DPR
The National Assembly on Thursday queried the N30 billion set aside by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in the 2012 budget as its recurrent expenditure.
The Committees on Petroleum Upstream and Downstream and the Committee on Gas Development in the two chambers of the National Assembly handed down the query to DPR when the management of the agency and other heads of parastatals in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources appeared before the joint committee for 2012 budget defence.
The lawmakers were furious that DPR planned to devote over 80 per cent of its budget fund to recurrent expenditure at the expense of capital budget.
Specifically, the lawmakers noted that DPR earmarked N30.399 billion out of its N35.89 billion budget for recurrent expenditure.
Chairman of Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, raised issues concerning the huge overhead costs in the petroleum sector.
He described the trend as “worrisome.”
Paulker insisted that ministries and parastatals should strive to raise capital votes above recurrent expenditure.
He said that the ministry failed to present its expenditure for 2011 and directed the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to furnish the committee with the details latest Monday.
The implication of the N30 billion personnel cost is that on the average, a staff of the DPR receives about N2 million every month, irrespective of cadre.
Senator Gbenga Ashafa blew the whistle on the over bloated recurrent expenditure when he said that N35.89 billion was allocated to the DPR with over N30 billion personnel cost.
He lamented that “this year another over bloated personnel cost has been allocated to DPR.”
According to him, N21.945 was allocated as personnel cost to DPR in 2010; N24 billion for the same purpose in 2011 while N30.399 billion was allocated to the agency in 2012 budget proposal.
The Lagos State born lawmaker said that his worry was that DPR has a workforce of less than 1500.
To make matters worse, he noted that the staff strength of the DPR has remained constant since 2010.
The lawmakers also wanted to know why the Petroleum Industry Bill budget of N17.3 billion in 2011 was depleted by about N9 billion when the Bill was not passed.

nice work.....

I'm begging who ever that is givin out my number for people to be callng to pls stop that! As i am not in dpr management.. The confussion that there's (a previous)recruitment going on now is fake. Pls take note.. A new recruitment may however be conducted later in the year.

Who can battle with the Lord? Nobody. Jsh7, if the recrutiment is fake, howcome you're so eager to discourage us Allow us to continue deceiving ourselves. Don't let God's wrath fall on you!

@All, News from Vanguard2012 Budget: FG to spend N27m on each DPR staff February 3, 2012NewsBy Henry Umoru & Inalegwu ShaibuLAGOS — A proposal by the Federal Government to expend an annual average of N27 million on each staff of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, as personnel cost caused a stir at the National Assembly, yesterday.Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, who led the DPR team and other agencies of the Ministry of Petroleum to the Senate defence hearing, however, assured that the government in a bid to curtail the burgeoning personnel cost was set to embark on a rationalization of its staff and agencies.

2012 Budget: FG to spend N27m on each DPR staffTweet February 3, 2012NewsBy Henry Umoru & Inalegwu ShaibuLAGOS — A proposal by the Federal Government to expend an annual average of N27 million on each staff of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, as personnel cost caused a stir at the National Assembly, yesterday.Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, who led the DPR team and other agencies of the Ministry of Petroleum to the Senate defence hearing, however, assured that the government in a bid to curtail the burgeoning personnel cost was set to embark on a rationalization of its staff and agencies.?An estimated N30 billion of a total budget of N35 billion proposed for the DPR is earmarked for the department’s 1,100 staff.A breakdown of the budget presentation tabled before the six committees of the National Assembly showed that of DPR’s N35, 997,149,841 budget, capital expenditure is only N4,786,302,790 while N31,210,847,051 will go to personnel costs and overheads. The budget estimate also indicated that personnel costs for DPR in 2012 is put at N30,399,182,331 while the remaining N811,664,720 is for overhead costs.Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Paulker Emmanuel, while noting that the huge overhead costs in the petroleum sector was worrisome, stressed that the budgetary proposals of the agencies in the sector must focus towards the capital side as a way of enhancing value.“I feel so worried as a Nigerian because if our budget is tailored towards that style, then, we are not creating hopes for investing in infrastructure and I hope you have noted that. I think there’s need for us to have a change and the oil industry is assumed to be a capital intensive industry.”Addressing the Committees, Director of the DPR, Mr. Austin Olorunshola, however, said the department was about to recruit more staff within the next two weeks. It was, however, not clear if the new staff were factored into the 1,100 staff projected for in the budget.Speaking further, Allison-Madueke told the joint committee that the executive branch was already working on rationalisation in all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.According to her, the purpose of the rationalisation was to merge some agencies and scrap others, adding that in the process, some members of staff would be laid off to reduce personnel and overhead cost of governance.We ‘ll scale down staff – MinisterThe Minister who said the situation with the recurrent expenditure profile of the DPR was symptomatic of the entire civil service in Nigeria.“This is symptomatic of the entire federal civil service. It’s not solely in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, it goes across the civil service but that is why Mr. President has called for a critical rationalization of the ministries, departments and agencies with a view to reducing the recurrent expenditure and overheads.”Continuing, she said “the slight increase in DPR’s recurrent budget represents provisions for anticipated recruitment of new staff to improve the overall effectiveness of the department,” adding, “You will also notice that the PPPRA is cap

Guys check this out as earlier posted by debrown. Lets see how true the DPR Director words are:
"Addressing the Committees, Director of the DPR, Mr. Austin Olorunshola, however, said the department was about to recruit more staff within the next two weeks. It was, however, not clear if the new staff were factored into the 1,100 staff projected for in the budget".

Also coming from the minister:
Continuing, she said “the slight increase in DPR’s recurrent budget represents provisions for anticipated recruitment of new staff to improve the overall effectiveness of the department,” adding, “You will also notice that the PPPRA is cap
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/2...h-dpr-staff-2/

Director, DPR stated that the agency is set to recruit 250 staff in the next two weeks.

http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/0...ly-2012-budget

Who else does not agree that minister is waiting for budget to sign our letters
Who else

The best things you guys suppose to do is to follow any thread on this BUDGET OF DPR and support it.