The President of the association, Festus Osifo, made this known on a Channels TV programme: “Politics Today.”
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The protesters, who had blocked the entrance into the company, did not allow other employees and management of the company into the compound
The Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, had on April 12 called on the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy because of low revenue mobilisation that existed in terms of tax to Gross Domestic Product
Sale Abdullahi, the Chairman of the NNPC Branch of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday
The union, in the statement by its National President, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, said it was unthinkable that the National Electricity Regulatory Commission has been justifying the increases
But Ogun, in the statement, said that owing to the rising cases of oil theft and kidnapping, oil companies have been divesting rather than investing in the oil industry
The workers alleged that the criminal activities of crude oil theft were perpetrated by highly placed and influential individuals and politicians, adding that Kuku “is only being economical with the truth and trying to cover up with his allegation against the workers”
Comrade Ogun lamented that over a year after the PIB was presented to the National Assembly, not much has been done
In a communique issued after a meeting of the Joint Action Committee of their two unions on Onne FTZ in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the oil workers’ unions stated that the planned industrial action will commence on February 13 and end on February 15, 2013 and will affect the entire South East and South South states except Delta and Edo States
Stakeholders expected to present their positions at the forum aside from PENGASSAN and NUPENG, include the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, international oil companies under the aegis of Oil Producers Trade Sector, the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria and Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria