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The absorption of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has announced a sweeping reorganisation of its operations and workforce, citing repeated acts of sabotage that threatened the information of its 650,000-barrels-per-day facility.
In a missive dated September 24, 2025, signed by the Chief General Manager, Human Asset Management, Femi Adekunle, the refinery said it was “constrained to transportation retired a full reorganisation of the plant” pursuing “many caller cases of reported sabotage successful antithetic units of the Petroleum Refinery starring to large information concerns.”
Affected unit were instructed to manus implicit institution spot to their enactment managers and await clearance earlier receiving entitlements, which the Finance Department was directed to compute successful enactment with conditions of service.
However, a elder authoritative of Dangote Refinery dismissed reports of wide layoffs, stressing that the determination was not a sack but a strategy clean-up to curb sabotage.
“Yes, the missive is correct. But the mentation is wrong. It affects immoderate radical due to the fact that of definite things discovered successful the refinery. It has thing to bash with unionism,” the authoritative told reporters connected Friday.
According to him, the measurement was aimed astatine plugging leakages and protecting the company’s assets.
“It doesn’t mean they person been sacked. That is incorrect. What was done was to enactment a cheque successful place. As soon arsenic the issues are addressed, they volition beryllium reabsorbed. That is wherefore the connection ‘sack’ was not used,” helium explained.
He added that the enactment was abrupt to forestall those progressive successful sabotage from concealing their activities.
“Some acts of sabotage person been noticed repeatedly, and the institution is lone trying to safeguard its assets. You cannot bash things similar this and springiness 2 weeks’ notice; otherwise, those progressive would screen up and complicate issues,” helium said.
The authoritative further clarified that operations astatine the refinery were ongoing, with some Nigerian and expatriate unit inactive working.
“As we speak, radical are inactive moving astatine the refinery. The radical affected cognize themselves, and those who did not get the missive are not affected. Anyone who doesn’t person a manus successful sabotage has thing to interest about,” helium stressed.
A transcript of the disengagement seen by reporters was addressed to each unit of Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE and Dangote Industries Free Zone Development Company.
It stated successful part, “In presumption of the galore caller cases of reported sabotage successful antithetic units of the Petroleum Refinery starring to large information concerns, the Management is constrained to transportation retired a full reorganisation of the plant.
“As a effect of this development, we privation to pass you that your services are nary longer required, with effect from the eve of Thursday, the 25th September, 2025.”
The Finance Department was directed to process benefits and entitlements erstwhile affected unit completed clearance procedures.
The refinery, which began operations successful 2024 amid precocious expectations of ending Nigeria’s reliance connected imported petroleum products, has precocious faced turbulence.
It has clashed with the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) implicit labour practices and information standards, with the national accusing the institution of “high-handedness.”
The installation has besides been successful struggle with the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), which accused Dangote of imposing rigid conditions connected merchandise organisation that could distort the downstream market.
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