REFINERY OF DIGOTE in PENGASSAN, NUPG: Publishing a verified account of the members of the members

The management of the Petrolo’s oil refinery has challenged the Petroleum and the Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Pengassan) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (Nupeng) to publish their controlled accounts that embrace the last ten years.

This arrives in the wake of the Pengassan strike for alleged sack of mass workers at the refinery, an accusation that the company has rejected as “false and mischievous”.

In a statement released on Sunday and entitled “Lawless Pengassan: Its Lies and Terror Tatics”, Dangote Refinery accused the unions of trying to keep the Nigerians to redeem with what he described as “bully and guerrilla tactics”.

“What Pengassan has undertaken equivalent to an act of terror,” said the company. “The union cannot justify the possession of over 230 million Nigerians in hostage by cutting the essential supplies of oil products.”

The refinery warned that the strike, if applied, could jeopardize energy safety and worsen the difficulties of ordinary citizens by cutting the supplies of kerosene, cooking gases, petrol, diesel and fuel for aviation.

The management of damage has further questioned the management of the contributions of the unions, noting that billions of Naira are collected monthly through control fees without any transparent report of how the funds are used.

“With billions of Naira collected every month, what was the record of social responsibility of these unions?” The declaration asked. “It has been time for Pengassan and Nupeng they have published their controlled accounts in the last ten years to show responsibility for their members and Nigerians”.

The company also accused the unions of a model of obstacles in the oil and gas sector, recalling their roles in the opposition of the sale of Port Harcourt refineries and Kaduna in 2007 and resisting recent amendments to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021.

By reiterating his commitment to the economic recovery of Nigeria, the refinery said that the Dangote project must be safeguarded by what he called “union sabotage”.

> “No association, not even Pengassan, is larger than Nigeria,” said the direction. “An injury to Dangote’s refinery is an injury to everyone.”

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