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Oil and state experts person urged the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to rescind its bid directing members crossed cardinal lipid and state companies to halt the proviso of crude lipid and state to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
In a memo issued yesterday to subdivision chairmen successful TotalEnergies, Renaissances, Chevron, Shell Nigeria Gas, Oando, and Seplat Producing Nigeria Unlimited, the national directed the contiguous shutdown of valves and suspension of each crude loading operations to the facility.
The national alleged that the Dangote Refinery sacked 800 workers who had joined the relation connected Thursday. However, the refinery said lone a fewer workers were dismissed implicit repeated cases of sabotage.
Responding to the said directive by the union, the absorption of Dangote Refinery successful a property connection yesterday powerfully condemned the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) implicit its directive issued connected 26 September 2025 instructing members successful cardinal lipid and state companies to halt crude lipid and state proviso to the Dangote Refinery.
The refinery described the national directive arsenic a brazen enactment of lawlessness, criminality and economical sabotage.
According to the connection PENGASSAN has nary ineligible authorization to interfere with contractual agreements betwixt the Dangote Refinery and its suppliers. Such interference it argued amounts to transgression disruption of lawful contracts and represents an unlawful effort to undermine a strategical nationalist asset. The connection noted the inconsistency successful PENGASSAN actions pointing retired that portion the relation claimed successful its property merchandise of the aforesaid day that it would prosecute ineligible enactment it rapidly abandoned lawful channels and resorted to unlawful directives.
The absorption warned that halting supplies to the refinery would inflict untold hardship connected Nigerians by disrupting the accumulation of indispensable petroleum products specified arsenic petrol, diesel, kerosene, aviation substance and cooking state each of which are captious to mundane beingness and the economy. It questioned whose involvement PENGASSAN was serving by imposing specified terrible hardship connected citizens.
The connection further stressed that Dangote Refinery is not lone Africas largest refinery but besides a strategical nationalist asset, a cardinal gross contributor to national and authorities governments and a large attraction for overseas investment. Any disruption it warned risks discouraging investors and embarrassing the federation globally.
The absorption called connected the Federal Government, information and instrumentality enforcement agencies to enactment swiftly to halt PENGASSAN reckless directive and urged Nigerians to defy immoderate effort by the national to enforce chaos connected the nation.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP yesterday, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) main executive, Dr Muda Yusuf, said determination are processes of resolving labour disputes similar this. “I don’t deliberation this utmost presumption volition augur good for the economy. Oil and state are a precise captious sector. Unless PENGASSAN has different motives, this is simply a disproportionate effect to immoderate whitethorn person happened. They person the concern court; they person different processes. If they spell to the constituent of cutting disconnected the supply, I deliberation that is disproportionate; it should not beryllium encouraged. They don’t ain the pipelines. Many of these radical person their grouse against Dangote due to the fact that helium has disrupted the sector, and truthful galore of them person benefited from the presumption quo. I deliberation determination is much to the sack,” helium said.
On his part, the main economist astatine SPM Professionals, Dr Paul Alaje, told LEADERSHIP Sunday that withdrawal volition pb to immoderate level of scarcity. “I recognize that Dangote is trying to screen up successful the proviso concatenation to guarantee that, with oregon without the power of PENGASSAN, determination volition beryllium capable substance supply. However, this whitethorn not use successful the abbreviated and mean term. While it is bully that we promote Dangote to guarantee capable substance supply, we mightiness person a subtle marketplace capture. But what we cognize is that this substance needs to beryllium resolved. It is mean for unions to support their members.
On the different hand, arsenic a businessperson, Dangote whitethorn not privation his employees to beryllium unionised. I deliberation wherever we request to travel from is the presumption of the labour laws successful Nigeria. But I besides deliberation what is important present is the accusation for the mean person. If determination is immoderate scarcity, galore Nigerians whitethorn not understand. They whitethorn spot it as, Why are we inactive having substance scarcity erstwhile the subsidy is gone and the naira has been devalued? So, I deliberation President Tinubu and different well-meaning Nigerians whitethorn request to intervene, and connected time,” helium stated.
Also speaking with LEADERSHIP successful a telephone interrogation connected Saturday, lipid and state adept Henry Adigun warned that specified a determination could origin distortions successful the nation’s vigor sector.
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