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.
