THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group Managing Director, GMD, Mr. Maikanti Baru, is in the eye of the storm. This may probably not be the best of times for the Jama’are, Bauchi-born oil manager.
ut after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday, it is expected that the icy tension generated by the leaked confidential memo written by his boss, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, would thaw. Penultimate week, when Sunday Vanguard contacted the Senate, through its Chairman on Public Procurement, Senator Joshua Dariye, APC, Plateau Central, information made available suggested that it would carry out a holistic investigation into the proposed NNPC award of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts of Ajaokuta- Kaduna-Kano(AKK) Gas Pipeline, totalling $2.317 billion (N834.12 billion), to the highest bidders once it discovered that due process was breached.
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