The assault on the petroleum workers was allegedly carried out by military personnel and operatives of other security agencies.
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The President of the association, Festas Osifo, offered the explanation when he spoke with newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday.
Festus Osifo, PENGASSAN President, said this is happening in the sector in blatant abuse of the expatriate quota system.
The PENGASSAN boss said this at the ongoing 2024 PENGASSAN Energy and Labour Summit in Abuja on Thursday.
The demand was contained in a letter dated July 1, 2024 by the two associations to President Tinubu.
The appeal is contained in a statement jointly signed by the PENGASSAN President, Festus Osifo and the General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa Friday in Abuja.
First, it was a threat by the oil workers senior staff association (PENGASSAN) to shut down oil operation in Nigeria following the federal government insincerity in the negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU). Interestingly, the oil workers union suddenly remembered to pull force with ASUU almost eight months after our universities were shut down.
PENGASSAN President, Festus Osifo, announced the rejection in a statement he jointly signed with Lumumba Okugbawa, General Secretary of the association, on Monday in Abuja.
The leadership of the oil workers’ union stated this when it appeared before the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Wednesday.
To address the twin issues, the government ordered the numerous vessels on the high seas involved in the booming trade to be bombed because all attempts to stop the theft failed.
This was disclosed by the PENGASSAN Port Harcourt Zonal Chairman, Comrade Peter Chukwudi Onita, in a statement.
Esele told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin, Edo State on Saturday that PETROAN had no right to increase petrol pump price unilaterally.
PENGASAN President, Festus Osifo, made the appeal at the inauguration of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme (NUCOP), in Abuja, on Tuesday.
The union made its position known in a statement by its General Secretary, Comrade Lumumba Okugbawa, on Wednesday, adding that the seven-day ultimatum to the oil company commenced on January 25, 2021.
The association’s General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa made the call on Monday in Lagos in commemoration of the Africa Industrialisation Day marked annually on November 20.
The union’s President, Felix Osifo, who disclosed this in a statement, said the meeting was inconclusive because the government was yet to address some of PENGASSAN’s demands.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the picketing took place at the Mansard House, Victoria Island area of Lagos State.
The oil firm said the development followed the evolving negative operational environment in the energy sector.
Ndukaku Ohaeri, PENGASSAN President, who made the appeal on Thursday at the union’s 6th Triennial National Delegates’ Conference in Abuja, said non-passage of the bill was denying the country lots of benefits accruing from the hydrocarbon industry.
You have an opportunity to innovate, becoming advocates for businesses and rowing in the same direction, for the overall good of all parties. That’s the right thing to do. That’s what will benefit thousands of your members. And at a personal level, that’s what I want given the need to secure my pension after 30 years of hard work in the industry we all care about