NNPC Bags New Telegraph Transparency Award As Kyari Reiterates Commitment To Accountability Mandate

The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari has reiterated his commitment to drive the Corporation along the line of Transparency, Accountability and Perfomance Excellence agenda.

Kyari, stated this while receiving recognition when the Corporation was named as the “Government Agency of the Year 2020 (Transparency)” by the New Telegraph Newspaper.

He said the award would be a major impetus towards the Corporation’s unflinching efforts to change the narrative around the NNPC brand, adding that this will enable him take the transparency drive to new and enviable heights.

Kyari, who commended the interest of the media in the activities of the Corporation and the oil and gas sector, assured that given the value of the award, he would do more to justify the trust.

The Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the New Telegraph, Ayodele Aminu, while presenting the award disclosed that the emergence of NNPC as the most transparent government agency in 2020 was based on the Corporation’s recent openness and accountability to the public.

Aminu noted that the noticeable efforts to deepen transparency in NNPC as evidenced by the publication of its 2018 and 2019 audited financial statements was a major factor in considering the Corporation for the award by the Management and Board of the New Telegraph.

“Before now, the accounts of the NNPC had been shrouded in secrecy. But Mele Kyari was brave enough to say this is the way we are and let the public see that there is nothing hidden,” the newspaper boss stated.