Reacting to the brutality of the police at the House of Representatives and the impeachment saga at the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Comrade Ogun said that politicians should act with decorum and stop activities that can put the Nigerian nation under tension
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According to him, casualisation and contract employment for jobs that should ordinarily be permanent and pensionable in nature has continued unabated in the oil and gas sector in the country
The Association stated that the payment of subsidy on petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, is not to the advantage of the Nigerian masses but only favour few individuals
The union stated this in a paper titled: “Building Synergy with Trade Unions to Optimize Value Creation in the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria: Benefits and Challenges of Implementing NOGICD Act,” and delivered by the PENGASSAN President, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, during a round table discussion organized by NCDMB PENGASSAN branch in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Thursday
Reacting to a recent media report in which the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, said the sale of the refineries is the best option and that the Federal Government will soon put them on sale, the President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, and the General Secretary, Comrade Bayo Olowoshile, warned the minister against heating up the polity of the country with her utterances and carefree attitude
PENGASSAN, which is a trade union of all senior staff in the oil and gas industry, also asked the Federal Government to without delay sack the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, David Parradang, and other senior officers of the paramilitary agency, who were involved in the exercise
Speaking against the backdrop of a deadline handed down by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to some agencies in the oil and gas industry, the workers said that if the government insists on imposing the IPPIS and its several impediments and hardship on the personnel records and payroll system in the oil and gas industry, they will not hesitate to reciprocate with an unfathomable industrial crisis
“The overhead cost becomes a paramount thing rather than the cost of living that forms one of the determinants of welfare of their employees
The state of fear that pervades the state is a threat to the lives and safety of oil and gas workers and the entire industry, PENGASSAN said on Thursday
Speaking on massive crude oil theft debacle, the Presidents of the PENGASSAN and NUPENG, Comrade Babatunde Ogun and Comrade Igwe Achese, condemned the helplessness of the Federal Government in combating the huge level of crude oil theft
Meanwhile, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Kaigama on his emergence as the president of the TUC
Bama, Borno State; Assakyo Village, Nasarawa State; and Benue State, describing the killings as acts of revolt against the Nigerian state
On deregulation, Comrade Ogun condemned government’s surreptitious moves to further increase the prices of petroleum products under the guise of deregulation, reiterating PENGASSAN’s long standing position that deregulation could not be import-driven and that the legal foundation and appropriate environment must be in place before the government engages all stakeholders on the issue