Buhari may sack Head of Service, Danladi Kifasi

Mr. Danladi Keifasi

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent sack of the 9-man board for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is being viewed by many as the beginning of his move to clean the oil sector.

DAILY POST has gathered that other Nigerians who in one way or the other were involved in corrupt practices in the corporation and still in government will soon be shown the way out.

The search light is now on Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Danladi Keifasi.

Daily Independent reports that the Presidency may ease him out because he served on the dissolved NNPC board believed to be corrupt.

Kifasi was Director of Finance and Accounts, Ministry of Power before his appointment as Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Youth Development, later moved to Ministries of Aviation and Finance in 2010 and served as member, Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

A source to the newspaper stated that due diligence and checks was not carried out on Kifasi before his appointment as the Head of the Service of the Federation.

“Otherwise why should the same people who ran the NNPC in the way the present Head of Service and his team ran that place would be rewarded with the position of the Head of Service,” the source said.

“Some of us at the NNPC were not comfortable with the way they were running this place, but the sad thing was that they took decisions as a board in collaboration with the petroleum minister and implemented without any body’s input, which is natural, but the issue here is that were those decisions and corrupt practices in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians.

“The accounts of the NNPC were never made known for instance, nobody knew how many litres of crude oil were refined, how many we were consuming, how much the corporation made weekly, they would just meet , draw a budget , approve that same budget and spend that same budget without recourse to any extant laws.

“This Keifasi was a member of that board, and his case is more of a mockery to the anti-corruption war promised by our President because, he is being compensated for aiding corruption with a higher position and that is laughable and I believe the President would take another look at that appointment.

“The rest of the eight members are already out, we are not taking on him (Keifasi), it is not anything personal, but this one is like rewarding crime. Even if the President wanted him to be Head of Service, he should have waited for the outcome of the probe, or is he not probing this corrupt sector again?”