Dangote Refinery: Group Accuses Union Of Economic Sabotage

A bluish unit group, the Arewa Social Contract Initiative, has accused the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) of waging what it described arsenic an “economic war” against Nigerians done its ongoing actions targeting the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.

The radical made the allegation yesterday portion addressing a property league astatine the league hallway of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, successful Kano.

National president of the group, Sani Adamu, said pursuing an exigency gathering of its nationalist enforcement members, the radical is disquieted implicit what it called “coordinated attempts to sabotage Nigeria’s economical independence.”

According to him, PENGASSAN’s directive to halt crude lipid and state supplies to the Dangote Refinery and its menace of a nationwide onslaught magnitude to “economic terrorism” that could paralyze indispensable sectors including health, transportation, and commerce.

“The Dangote Refinery is not conscionable Africa’s largest, but the world’s biggest single-train refinery, with the capableness to process 650,000 barrels per day.

“It was designed to extremity Nigeria’s humiliating dependence connected imported fuel, stabilize the naira, and adjacent the acheronian section of substance subsidy fraud. To onslaught it is to onslaught the aboriginal of each Nigerian,” helium stated.

The radical besides dismissed PENGASSAN’s claims of wide sacking and the replacement of Nigerian workers with foreigners arsenic “false propaganda,” insisting that the refinery presently employs implicit 3,000 Nigerians and contributes importantly to taxation revenues.

They besides accused the national of having a agelong grounds of blocking reforms, citing its 2007 absorption to the merchantability of moribund refineries; informing that, targeting Aliko Dangote, “a Northern industrialist who invested massively successful the South,” risked politicising a nationalist plus on taste and determination lines.

The radical person further urged the national authorities to state the refinery a Critical National Infrastructure, warrant uninterrupted crude lipid supply, and analyse what it termed “acts of economical sabotage.” It besides called connected instrumentality enforcement agencies to unafraid the refinery and its workers.

To PENGASSAN, the radical demanded an contiguous extremity to actions “crippling the refinery” and urged the national to instrumentality to dialog alternatively than “holding the federation hostage.”

“The Dangote Refinery is our beacon of economical independence,” the radical declared. “We volition not let a fewer individuals to destruct the anticipation of implicit 200 cardinal Nigerians,“ they maintained.