The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Malam Mele Kolo Kyari has described the newly appointed Chief Executive of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Dr. Ogbonnaya Orji in glowing terms while congratulating him and praising the President for choosing him for the post.
A statement by the Corporation’s spokesman, Dr. Kennie Obateru, quoted the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, as applauding President Muhammadu Buhari for the wonderful decision of appointing Dr. Orji as the Executive Secretary of NEITI to continue the massive reforms currently in progress in the oil and gas industry.
In the words of Mallam Kyari, Dr. Orji is a competent technocrat, EITI expert and resource governance professional, who has been deeply involved in NEITI and NNPC engagements on reforms of the oil and gas industry over the past decade adding that the appointment was most timely.
He noted that as a supporting company of the EITI at the international level, NNPC was ready to sustain its collaboration with NEITI under Dr. Orji’s leadership in the key areas of the agency’s industry audit process, exchange of information and data, commodity trading, contract transparency, beneficial ownership, mainstreaming and overall oil and gas industry reforms under the EITI/NEITI framework.
Kyari believes that Dr. Orji would help consolidate the gains so far achieved by the NNPC-NEITI Joint Committee on Remediation set up to ensure speedy implementation of all the findings and recommendations contained in NEITI Independent Audit Reports of the oil and gas industry.
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