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Guys read Punch Newspapers Editorial on NNPC and the FoI act.
No be until u enter market nai dem go know say u don dey Mad.see sSyGgi wey neva chop beleful won give person food,Lmao.Any way sSyGgi,I ve got much Rabba and much smag.dnt need any from a low-down crawling Ape like you,ok?.Grow up!Stop Gaddeming about.Na God save you say I no knw you phisically,I for order make dem give U,48 strokes.so long Ape!Originally Posted by sSYGgi
Good 2 c dis as your first post. Nice one!!!!
NNPC and the FOI Act
AUGUST 9, 2012 BY EDITORIAL 1 COMMENT
REJECTING a request by the Daily Trust newspaper for information regarding its recent recruitment, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation reportedly said that, as a statutory corporation, it was not bound by the Freedom of Information Act. This is a great disservice to transparency – a theatre of the absurd playing itself out.
Ordinarily, the corporation, without any prompting, should have such information on its website. But ours is a society where truth is hard to find. The search for this truth brought about the enactment of the FOI law, which is in operation in over 70 countries, and was first enacted in Sweden in 1766 as Freedom of the Press Act. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, further recognises this freedom as a fundamental human right. The value of such laws is to make it harder for governments to hide corruption or maladministration.
Relying on FOI law, the newspaper had requested the details of NNPC’s recruitment, including the number of applicants from each state, points scored by each candidate at the test and interview levels, benchmark points set by the corporation, number of candidates that qualified with their states of origin and number of the applicants eventually employed by the corporation and their states of origin. Section 2 (7) of the FOI Act 2011, which the newspaper relied on, defines public institutions (such as NNPC) as “all authorities, whether executive, legislative or judicial agencies, ministries, and extra-ministerial departments of the government, together with all corporations established by law and all companies in which government has a controlling interest, and private companies utilising public funds, providing public services or performing public functions.”
But the NNPC, somewhat bizarrely, claimed that “it is not bound by the provisions of the law as a “statutory corporation” by virtue of section 31 of the FOI Act. Section 31 defines public institution as “any legislative, executive, judicial, administrative or advisory body of the government, including boards, bureaux, committees or commissions of the state, and any subsidiary body of those bodies, including but not limited to committees and sub-committees which are supported in whole or in part by public funds or which expends public fund and private bodies providing public services, performing public functions or utilising public funds.” NNPC claims it does not fall under any of these categories.
This is curious. Who else is, if NNPC is not under the law? The government established NNPC by Decree 33 of 1977. Apart from its exploration activities, the corporation was given powers and operational interests in refining, petrochemicals and products transportation as well as marketing on behalf of the Nigerian people. It sits atop Nigeria’s average earnings of over $282 million per day from crude oil. The position of legal experts, including Femi Falana and Itse Sagay, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria, is that the NNPC’s assertion is not tenable in law. According to Sagay, the corporation is a public institution, which is 100 per cent owned by the government with no private shares. This assertion was echoed by NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu, on assumption of office. “The NNPC is the mainstay of the nation’s economy. We must reposition the corporation for better service and to support the economy. We will strive very hard to work with the Nigerian public and all the stakeholders.” He then pledged to ensure “transparency and accountability in the operations of the corporation as well as across the value chain of the oil and gas industry.”
NNPC is bound by the FOI Act. The culture of secrecy in the public sector generally is pernicious. For NNPC, whose policies and practice affect public and private sectors, it has always proved fatal. The principle behind the FOI law is that the government should be putting more, not less, material into the public domain. It is therefore inconceivable for an organisation that is “the mainstay of the nation’s economy” not to be within the FOI Act radar. In any case, public officials and institutions never really wanted the FOI law.
NNPC has once again proved that it has a lot to hide, but this is not new. Audit and legislative probe reports have consistently provided damning accounts of systemic corruption, fraud and embezzlement in NNPC. The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative declared in the first-ever comprehensive report on Nigeria’s petroleum industry that it uncovered operational lapses as well as structural dislocations that had been extensively exploited by unscrupulous functionaries, Joint Venture Partners and other shady characters in society. Other reports, including several by the National Assembly, depict NNPC as a clandestine organisation that carries on the way it wishes with public funds.
Nigerians should begin to test the efficacy of the FOI law as citizens of other countries do. Experiences in some other countries where the FOI law is in operation indicate that such freedom is never given on a silver platter. Such issues as exemptions, poor awareness, delay tactics, mute refusal, routine denial of access to information and interpretation of what constitutes public interest still pose problems with the implementation of the law.
If the NNPC must purge itself of perfidy, including sundry allegations of operating illegal foreign accounts and other corrupt tendencies, it must make its operations as open as possible. Public bodies hold information for the benefit of the members of the public and unless there is an overriding public interest as reason for denying access, individuals and organisations should be able to access such information. That is the new trend in the world today. Without it, our democracy will remain stunted.
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@musty4u,tank u very much.i don miss alot o 4 2days nw.make nnpc cal us o soonest.
NNPC , if it has nothing to hide from the public being a govt.'s institution,should make the recruitment info available to the press but I think it will do that when all candidates have been called. New GMD had promised tranparency, so what next why NNPC is saying that it was not bound by FoI. I disagree withh NNPC on that.
Transparency is a mere lip service. They don't practice what they preach except ur carry arm against them or you do something that will cut oil revenue to their pocket. Na Wayo govt. we they na.
IT IS REALLY FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In 1979, Bamanga Tukur was the Governor of the defunct Gongola State (now Adamawa & Taraba) and 33 years after he is still the Chairman of the ruling Party, The PDP.
Dr. Bello Halliru was commissioner in the Old Sokoto State (now Sokoto, Kebbi & Zamfara) and 33 years after he is still d Minister of Defence;
Major General David Mark (rtd) was the military governor of Niger State in 1984 and 28 years after he is still the Senate President;
Gov. Murtala Nyako was the governor of Niger State in 1976 and 36 years after he is still the Governor of Adamawa State;
Ogbonnaya Onu was governor of Abia State in 1992 and 20 years after he is still the National Chairman of ANPP;
Gov. David Jonah Jang was the governor of Benue State in 1985 and 27 years after he is still the governor of plateau state;
And Martins Elechi the Ebonyi State Governor is over 80 years old! Only in Nigeria is this possible
1985, IBB was the president of Nigeria and our teachers told us that Buhari was the former Head of state as at then..
Our teachers also called us the leaders of tomorrow.. 27 years later, IBB and Buhari are still contesting for President.
It's either our teacher lied to us about being the leaders of tomorrow..Or tomorrow is yet to come. What do you think?
Waitin for the nass return to pass the pib.
They are just recycling themselves and feeling like God's gift to Nigeria.
How are we sure that this recruitment is going on 100% merit bcos u talked of GTs or OPs with two masters from abroad and this was someone said that any whenever there are recruitments in juicy govt. MDAs such as CBN, NNPC and co, our big wigs invite their sons & daughters from abroad for the vacancies. I don't think those people Alanu Loluwa was describing are children of average Nigerians except on scholarships.I just dey think of some things.But God is there.
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