The Kano State Chapter Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Bashir Dan-Mallam, has mourned the death of a former Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, who passed away Friday evening in Abuja.
Mr Dan-Mallam, in a statement on Sunday in Kano, described the late Baru as a “consummate technocrat who served the NNPC and the country with dedication, and fear of God”.
According to him, Mr Baru’s absence would be greatly missed by his family, the NNPC, and Nigeria as a whole.
Mr Dan-Mallam further noted that NNPC had witnessed great transformation during the tenure of late Mr Baru, adding that “even the issue of containing the problem of end-of-the-year fuel scarcity had started during his time”.
“He had brought so much transformation during his bright tenure. All of the associations in the oil industry had been carried along by him. He is also mindful of staff welfare.
“Indeed, Nigeria has lost a consummate technocrat whose tenure had been a stepping ground for his successors,” said the statement.
While praying to Allah to rest the soul of Mr Baru in peace, Mr Dan-Mallam also prayed to God to grant his family the fortitude to bear the loss.
The chairman also expressed his happiness that the current management of the NNPC under the leadership of Mele Kyari had continued from where late Mr Baru stopped, “and even added some innovation that moved the oil industry forward”.
He assured Nigerians that the association would continue supplying petroleum nationwide even in the lockdown period, occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19.
