Dangote, labour impasse sends wrong signal to potential investors – MAN

Set to deepen ‘Nigeria First’ speech astatine 53rd AGM

By Yinka Kolawole

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has warned that the existent impasse betwixt Dangote Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) could nonstop the incorrect awesome to imaginable investors.

Director General of MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, stated this astatine a media briefing connected the forthcoming 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the relation successful Lagos connected Tuesday.

He stated: “The awesome that we are sending to the planetary assemblage is rather unfortunate.
“If a institution arsenic large arsenic Dangote Refinery is being dealt with this way, with 1 occupation aft the different – by regulatory agencies, motortruck drivers, and present PENGASSAN, for an concern of $20 billion, that is caput boggling and it’s thing that we shouldn’t let to fester.

“How would anyone who sees what has been done to Dangote Refinery privation to travel into this state and put big?”

Ajayi-Kadir advised the authorities to measurement successful and guarantee that the regularisation of instrumentality prevailed.

“There is simply a labour contented you person with an organisation, woody with it. There are processes of law, but you are shutting down the state conscionable due to the fact that you person a disagreement.

“We are having a concern wherever companies that trust connected state won’t beryllium capable to person gas. And the implications are precise glaring, factories volition not beryllium capable to produce, they are apt to endure cuts successful presumption of their accumulation schedule. They volition not beryllium capable to get their goods to the marketplace and whitethorn yet suffer marketplace stock to imported products that are not suffering this benignant of disruption.”

Meanwhile, MAN President, Francis Meshioye, said the forthcoming 53rd AGM of the relation volition supply an fantabulous level to deepen the speech connected the “Nigeria First” Policy, which helium described arsenic a decisive strategy to prioritise locally manufactured goods and services.

His words: “The taxable for this year’s AGM, “Nigeria First: Prioritizing Patronage of Made successful Nigeria”, underscores our unwavering content that prioritizing section accumulation is the surest way to sustainable growth, employment procreation and nationalist development.”

The lawsuit is scheduled to clasp from Tuesday, 14th to Thursday, 16th October 2025 astatine the Lagos Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Dignitaries expected astatine the 3-day lawsuit see President Bola Tinubu;
and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; portion Aliko Dangote volition beryllium the Guest Speaker.

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