The meeting was held as criticism of the President’s handling of the crises continues to grow from several quarters, even as queues continued to increase at the few filling stations selling the product across the country.
Browsing: Comrade Igwe Achese
Isong explained that the private depot owners were selling the product to marketers at N144 as against the approved rate of N133.28 at the NNPC depots.
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The seven day ultimatum threat notice dated 8th September, 2017, which is expected to elapse on Friday, 15th September, 2017, was sent to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, and is expected to paralyze key sectors of the nation’s economy.
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The retrenchment of the workers followed the company’s indebtedness to a commercial bank to the tune of N25 billion which led to AMCOM taking over the assets and liabilities of Seawolf.
“The union is, therefore, issuing a notice to withdraw its services any moment from now in solidarity with the affected workers if the unresolved payment of salaries and entitlements of these workers are not settled,” the statement read.
Achese stated, “We have continued to wonder why the sale of public assets like the Port Harcourt refinery is being done in secret in the way and manner they are doing it. Knowing that there are stakeholders in this sector, and these stakeholders are also taxpayers, you don’t just take any decision at will.”
“NUPENG believes that the job creation mantra of the government should be allowed to play, rather than paving way for job losses as it is the case of the current closure of Capital Oil.”
“NUPENG wants the NNPC to also go further to reactivate and re-open the other moribund depots scattered all over the county. We want to also reiterate our earlier call for the establishment of Pipeline Protection Agency, PPA, that will be saddled with the protection of pipelines traversing the nooks and crannies of the country. The Agency should be well funded and equipped with modern gadgets like alarms, sensors and helicopters gun-ships with night vision.”