Thursday, 25 June 2009

Mr Badarou´s accident


The facts treated in the blog today came to my attention just some days ago.
They took place in December 2008.Mr Badarou newly appointed as director of Engen Guinea Bissau had an accident of the Ziguinchor-Bissau road. There were 3 people in the vehicle that belonged to Engen: Mr Badarou and 2 soldiers.
One of the soldiers lost his life in the accident and the other one came out unscathed. Mr Badarou was severely injured and he taken to São Domingos, the closest town then to Ziguinchor (Senegal) just minutes after the accident by some travellers.
He admitted in a hospital in that city that is about 200km away from Bissau.
After the doctors judged his condition stable he was taken to Dakar for further tests and care.
Mr Badarou went back to work about 2 weeks later. His co-workers were worried about him. However Mr Badarou is now well.
The thing is many seem to forget that there is need to know what happened. The vehicle belonged to Engen and the person driving was an Engen employee.
Was Mr Badarou working when he had the accident?
The other soldier who survived said he did know what happened because he was at the back. The only thing he could say was that he had the impression that Mr Badarou was driving fast. The road was good, no oil on the ground there was no traffic, he did not hit anything and the road was straight at particular spot for several kilometres.
What happened?
Nobody knows because Mr Badarou himself says he does not remember. Yes, amnesia.
A local radio brushed the accident and Mr Badarou tried to put a lid on that.
A man lost his life and nobody knows why or how. What did Engen do about it?A father and husband died but life continues. It is just……business as usual.

Monday, 15 June 2009

What is happening at ASB?

ASB is a company owned part by Engen GB part by Petrogal.
When Total was still in Guinea Bissau he director was one of the signatories on the accounts and an employee was appointed to manage ASB. employee knows a lot on the legal and technical aspect of supplies for planes. the current management is trying to replace him with the stocks manager.
1-In march 2009,Mr Bastou Badarou and Aminou Abache organize a meeting with the employees of ASB without informing the person appointed to manage the company.
2-Mr Badarou refuses to renew the contract of an employee of ASB, Mr Edgar de Jesus Pinto Vieira Reis and gives the stocks manager the green light to recruit somebody who happens to be one of his friends(who leased his pumps to ASB).Can´t ASB buy its own pumps?
3-It seems that the stock manager received a big salary increase.
The truth is that some get profit from the storing and sales of petrol and mixture.ASB due to its isolation is the right place to store and sell those products which makes it a strategic point.
The objective of Mr Badarou is to get rid of anybody who can disturb him in his illegal business.
First he pushes away the person responsible of the company.
Secondly, he gets rid of an employee who was line-managed by the stocks manager.
Finally, they hire the owner of the pump and friend of the stocks manager.
Nothing of this is known is Cape Town as all the information coming from or going to the headquarters pass through Mr Badarou and Abache.
When it is time for Engen to review the forecast or plans this year in Guinea Bissau, the reasons for low performance will be : political, military problems, elections, global crisis…
The true reasons like: bad management, conflict of interest, lack of motivation of staff, misuse of company resources, etc will never come up.
The only is that the whole Engen reputation will be permanently stained.