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The former Managing Director of NilePet Eng. Bernard Amour has suggested the dissolution of the state-owned firm and the establishment of a new national oil institution to be managed independently by professionals.
Eng. Amour made the remarks on Thursday at the 4th High-Level Forum on Fiscal Devolution and Revenue Management – a key component of the Permanent Constitution-Making Process in Juba. According to him, the challenges facing the oil sector are due to politicians hiring unqualified relatives or family members.
He noted that over-employment with unqualified children of influential people continues to be a major challenge for the development of the oil sector. “People who mess up oil sectors are politicians.
Let me use NilePet as an example. On the first day I arrived in the office as Managing Director, the manpower was over 1,900 and most of them were children of ministers, uncles, and generals just for accommodation,” he said.
“NilePet can never perform better no matter what miracle you perform, because the overhead is higher than what is coming in, so, consequently, the 8% share is going for salary.
They can’t do projects or contribute to national development.” Eng. Amour warned that the Joint Operation Companies are at a critical risk of collapse.
“The worst-case scenario now, DAR is off, SPOC and GPOC are struggling, and they are now on life-support. Unless there is a political will “Any expert will tell you that is the only way you can have a well-performing national oil company, based on merit, job description and availability of the job.
These are the problems of over “employment and disparity.” Engineer Bernard Amour proposed dissolving the state-owned company and creating a new national oil company run independently by professionals.
Former Nilepet CEO Bernard Amor has proposed dissolving state-owned Nilepet and establishing an independent national oil corporation run by professionals.
Amor made the comments on Thursday during his participation in the 4th High Level Forum on Fiscal Transition and Revenue Management in Juba.
Bernard spoke about the challenges facing the oil sector in South Sudan, which are due to politicians employing their relatives or unqualified family members.
Amor pointed out that the excessive employment of the children of unqualified influential people remains a major challenge to the development of the oil sector, saying: “People who corrupt the oil sectors “Oil is the politicians,” he said, giving the example of the Nile National Petroleum Company.
He said that since he arrived in office as general manager, the workforce had exceeded 1,900, most of whom were sons of ministers and generals. He added, “The Nile Petroleum Company will not be able to achieve better performance, no matter what kind of miracle it performs.” Because the overhead is higher than what is achieved, so the 8% share goes to salaries.
They cannot implement projects or contribute to national development.” Engineer Amor warned of the risk of collapse threatening joint operations companies.
“The worst case scenario now is that Dar Petroleum is out of service, and both SPOC and GPOC are struggling and are now in intensive care to support life,” said Engineer Bernard. “Unless there is a political will to dissolve Nile Petroleum and form a new company, “New,” he added.
“Any expert will tell you that this is the only way to have a functioning national oil company, based on merit, job description and availability of jobs
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