Arigbabu  Olatokunbo A former employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Olatokunbo Arigbabu, in this interview with Dayo Oyewo, explains how he was allegedly unjustly dismissed and his entitlements withheld for exposing a contract deal that saved the company over N25bn When did you join NNPC? I was recruited from London, Great Britain by the Federal Civil Service Commission and seconded to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in 1977. How did this whole issue start? It was at the end of 1992, to early 1993, in my capacity as Chief Engineer, my employer (then), the  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation sent me on an assignment involving the Mobil-NNPC Joint Venture in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The team included 10 expatriate management our assignment was to verify and confirm the representations made by different consortiums that submitted bids for the EPC contract of the Quo-Ibow (QIT) Terminal (Upgrade) Expansion. Three consortia eventually emerged,...