The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) sometime around March 2010 advertised for various positions and conducted two different tests on 12th June and 4th Dec 2010 respectively through a recruitment agency ERA Professional Services. Successful candidates were invited for final interviews at Lagos resource centre, No.9 Anifowoshe Street, Off Kofo Abayomi between April and May 2011.
Hon Minister, we are bringing to your notice that since then,no communication has been made to the successful candidates as the interviewees are yet to know their fate about this recruitment spanning over two years.This calls on the contribution from our meager sources to publish this appeal letter to you
Hon Minister,if you may recall; earlier in the year (February 2012), many organizations and MDA’s defended their 2012 annual budgets on the floor of the National Assembly. Your Honorable-self (who oversees DPR),and a Director defended the huge budget of the entire Ministry of Petroleum Resources(MPR), comprising N51,324,227,840.00 for recurrent expenditure, and N8,340,300.00 for completion of ongoing capital projects, which also made provisions for the new staff on the Departments’ employment waiting list, which at the time of project Defense were made to resume in two- weeks time, in other to improve the overall effectiveness of the Department, and lay credence to the increase in the recurrent budget of the Department.It is therefore astounding that Six (6) months after that Defense, the DPR 2010recruitments exercise have not been concluded.There have been total silence from MPR, and as it stands now, the exercise has almost spanned for periods of thirty three months.
This piece is therefore borne out of a growing fear of cancellation and delay, predicated on the insidious demise of so many recruitment campaigns in Nigeria, as the successful ones amongst us are yet to receive theirs Offer letters. We will like to acknowledge the drastic efforts you have taken so far in reviving the amorphous nature of the oil and gas sector of the economy despite the dynamism and turbulence that has dogged your sincere and seminal efforts to uplift the sector. Truly your name shall be written in Gold if you can urgently end this recruitment saga, as you recently did for the NNPC successful candidates.
So far the interviewees have remained calm as responsible individuals and we therefore appeal to you to continue this good work by listening and responding to our plea. This will rapidly implement the critical interventions needed to positively transform the Nigeria petroleum industry in the spirit of Mr. Presidents’ transformation agenda.
We humbly pledge our commitment to give our best to support your efforts to strengthen the sector as we hope to be absorbed soonest as did to our successful NNPC candidates in recent time.
In conclusion,this medium is in view to resolving the perpetual delay of the recruitment exercise, and a call on to all relevant bodies, concerned MDAs; the National Assembly, the Federal Characters Commission, DPR boards , National Human Rights Commission, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the presidency to inquire into this long and overdue recruitment exercise by using the powers bestowed on your offices within the ambient of the law to conclude this long running recruitment, and appeal on our behalf for MPR to invite successful candidates for their employment letters as soon as possible.
GOD BLESS YOU (HONOURABLE MINISTER-MPR)
GOD BLESS THE DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES (DPR)
GOD BLESS THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES (MPR)
GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
GOD BLESS THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS,
GOD BLESS THE DPR2011HOPEFULS
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