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NNPC MOURNS DEPARTED COLLEAGUES

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The Management and staff of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have extended their deepest
sadness of its staff and other passengers that died in the Dana plane crash on
Sunday.
The condolence is coming even as the family of the late
Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, is
still struggling to come to terms with his death.
In a condolence message to the bereaved families, the
Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr. Austen Oniwon, described the
misfortune as a “trying period,” while urging “the NNPC family to keep faith.”


The message was contained in a statement on Monday and
signed by the General Manager, Media Relations Department, Group Public Affairs
Division, Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim.
The statement read in part, “The Management and staff of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, received with great shock
the news of the air crash involving Dana Airlines Flight 0992 from Abuja
to Lagos on Sunday, June 3, 2012
in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos.”
However, the statement did not specifically acknowledge
the demise of Ajuonuma, but quoted Oniwon as praying “for the repose of the
gentle souls of our departed colleagues, members of their families and other
Nigerian and international passengers and crew in the ill-fated aircraft and
for God to grant the nation, the nuclear families that lost their beloved ones
the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.”

The NNPC boss, who is said to be in the United States where he is attending an official engagement, further said
that “NNPC as a family is united in faith with God who is all-knowing; it is
only God that can comfort and console us at this dark hour.”
He also extended his “deep condolences to Mr. President,
the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources, members of the NNPC and the
Nigerian Oil and Gas industry family that have lost a number of their
colleagues in the disaster.”
Meanwhile, the family of the late Ajuonuma is still too
shocked to make any public statement on the loss of their dear one.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani
Alison-Madueke, and the Group Chief Executive of the Ondo Group, Mr. Wale
Tinubu, were also at the deceased’s house to pay their condolence.

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