NBET: Corruption fighting back – LAMP

A media advocacy group, League of Anambra Media Practitioners (LAMP) has condemned in totality the recent campaign of calumny in the media, which is being championed by few disgruntled staff of Nigeria Bulk Energy Trading PLC (NBET) against the managing director of NBET, Dr Melyrin Amobi, describing such attacks as corruption fighting back to discredit the anti-corruption policies put in place by Dr Amobi.
The media advocacy group averred that the ultimate goal of these unwarranted attacks on the person of the NBET boss was to give way for the same set of corrupt minds to take hold of the agency, where the embattled MD has succeeded in entrenching professionalism, proper work ethic, discipline and aversion to corruption, contrary to what was obtainable before her taking over as MD of NBET in 2015.
In a press statement signed and made available to journalists yesterday by the national convener of LAMP, Mr Williams Orji, the media advocacy group frowned at the way these staff are using media houses and civil society groups to do their dirty work against the NBET boss, instead of facing the corruption charges against them at various security agencies.
The media group noted that the recent invitation extended to the six staff of the BULK trader, by State Security Service SSS, was a routine excise that has nothing personal to do with Dr Amobi, but based on happenings in the agency as orchestrated by them.
“ It is important to note here that prior to the invitation of these six staff of NBET, there was grand plans by them to lockdown the agency by instigating other staff members, both senior and junior to embark on a strike action as a way of rubbishing the good work and image of the MD, so that they would build good excuse for the general public to believe their spurious allegations against  the their boss, thus paving way for the federal government to sack her.
“Our finding shows that last week these set of men and women, who are senior and management staff on their own, started instructing the rest of the staff members to stop coming to work, as a way of pressing their ulterior motive of getting the federal government to sack their MD. On Thursday precisely, believing that their nocturnal plan had succeeded, six of them did absented from work, to fulfill the hatched plan against Dr Amobi. But when they noticed that the plan did not succeed, as all other staff members came to work thereby shunning their game plan, they quickly sent in excuse letters to the agency, stating all kinds of reasons they couldn’t come to work on that day.