A LETTER TO THE GREAT SCHOLARS

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Dear great Scholars on this forum,

I am in need of your help to solve some problems I encountered in the public announcement made by the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Corportation  (recently changed to Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited), Mr. Mele Kyari, on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. In Nigeria's Channels TV, Mr. Kyari disclosed on that day how adulterated fuel was imported to the country by fuel importers. The quantity of petrol involved and the cost was not mentioned. Before listing the problems that I need your help to solve, let me place at your disposal excerpts from Mr. Kyari statements.

Mr. Mele Kyari said : (i) On January 20, 2022, NNPC received a report from our quality inspector on the presence of emulsion particles in PMS (petrol) shipped to Nigeria from Antwerp - Belgium.

(ii) Cargoes quality certificates issued at load port (Antwerp-Belgium) by Am Spec Belgium indicate that the gasoline complied with Nigerian Specification.

(iii) The NNPC quality inspectors including GMO, SGS, Geo Chem and G&G conducted tests before discharge and also showed that the gasoline met Nigerian Specification.

(iv) As a standard practice for all PMS(petrol) imports to Nigeria, the said cargoes were equally certified by inspection agents appointed by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).

(v) It is important to note that the usual quality inspection protocol employed in both the load port in Belgium and our discharge ports in Nigeria DO NOT INCLUDE THE TEST FOR PERCENT MENTHANOL CONTENT and therefore the additive was not detected by OUR QUALITY INSPECTORS.​    

​https://www.channelstv.com/2022/02/09/just-in-nnpc-gmd-reveals-how-adulterated-fuel-was-imported-importes/ 

Since Wednesday, 9 February 2022, I have been trying to identify persons who are NNPC quality inspectors but I only met brick walls. Can any of our great scholars on this forum help me to disclose the names of the NNPC quality inspectors contained in the acronyms, GMO, SGS, Geo Chem and G&G? Are the NNPC quality inspectors Ghosts?

What percentage of methanol did the Nigerian specification approve for the imported fuel? If Nigerian specification limits the percentage of content of methanol in imported fuel, why is it not a standard practice to test for if the limit is exceeded or not at the port of discharge in Nigeria? If the Nigerian quality inspectors conducted tests before discharge and certified that the gasoline met Nigerian specification, at which point in Nigeria did adulteration of the gasoline take place? And finally, what is the percentage of methanol (impurity) in the imported fuel?

S. Kadiri 

[Biko Agozino]

Please tell the Oga DG on top that all petroleum and gas products are toxic without exception. Instead of looking for scape goats to punish for adulterated petrol, it is better to pivot away from fossil fuel and invest in solar power generators and wind farms, thermal and water power generators to get rid of 'I pass my neighbor' generators that produce noise pollution and poisonous fumes that kill whole families while warming the climate with CO2.

Biko

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

​When billionaires and millionaires pray that rich people should live for more than a century, and people with only one dollar in their bank account say amen in the belief that a person with one dollar in bank account is rich. In fact, Nigeria's and indeed Africa's contribution to global warming and climate change is zero compared to industrialised Western Europe and United States of America. When Nigeria and the entire continent of Africa are at the same industrial and economic developments with Europe and the U.S., we shall then be qualified to talk about global warming and the danger of climate change. It is unrealistic, if not downright wickedness, to ask starving and malnourished Nigerians to join the overfed and obese people of the western world in dieting and fasting in order to reduce weight. As of today, the higher standard of living of the people of Europe and the U.S. still depends on what you term, *toxic petroleum and gas products.* However, and unlike the Nigerian case, their toxic petrol and gas are never adulterated.

The DG on top as you termed it is not looking for any scape goats to blame, rather, he portrayed himself with his statements as not meriting his position. Instead, he defended his quality inspectors that the tests they conducted before discharge in Nigeria met Nigerian specification. At the same time, Mele Kyari volte faced by claiming that it is not the duty of quality inspectors to test for percent of methanol contents in imported gasoline. The names of the quality inspectors were given in acronyms and I think Nigerians should know them by their real names. In normal climes, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NNPC, Mele Kyari, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed and all the quality inspectors would have been arrested and investigated for complicity in the adulterated fuel import. I have hoped that Oluwatoyin Adepoju, Chidi Opara or Mobolaji Aluko would have helped in unravelling the persons enveloped in the quality inspectors' acronyms GMO, SGS, Geo Chem and G&G if they are not ghosts.

S. Kadiri     

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