ExxonMobil believes Ministry of Natural Resources Petroleum Director, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai, to be a man “caught in the middle” of the controversy surrounding the unauthorised reduction of IHS Markit’s US$214 million questionable audit sums and regrets that he will be disciplined.
“I feel very sorry for Mr. Gossai. I feel he has been somewhat caught in the middle and was working diligently and in support of the process. Unfortunately, you know, the right people haven’t got to the right people and he has been left carrying that, but I think he has worked diligently and with the best of intent,” ExxonMobil Country President Alistair Routledge yesterday told a press conference, where the company finally made public its views on Gossai’s role.