Dangote’s Refinery DTCDA disbanded, says NUPENG

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA – THE Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has said that the Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association, DTCDA, established by the absorption of Dangote refinery, has been disbanded.

This is portion of the statement reached betwixt the enactment of NUPENG, and the Dangote Petrochemical refinery typical earlier the suspension of the onslaught embarked upon by the former.

The statement was reached connected Tuesday, astatine the office of the Department of State Services, DSS successful Abuja.

Speaking to Vanguard, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, said the prime of the DSS bureau was to person a antithetic environment, adding that it afforded the accidental for the Minister of Finance to beryllium successful attendance.

On his part, the President of NUPENG, Comrade Williams Akporeha, said each contentious issues were resolved.

He said: “We signed statement and members person agreed to unionisation of workers successful Dangote Petrochemical refinery.”

He said that the onslaught is to beryllium called disconnected instantly and that tankers person started loading petroleum products.

On the alleged uncompromising behaviour exhibited by the Dangote refinery representative, the NUPENG President said that the Dangote squad denied thing of such.

He said: “They said they didn’t locomotion out. The antheral (Dangote refinery representative) said helium was bare and has ulcer, truthful helium had to spell and eat, that determination was thing similar helium locomotion out.”

Asked wherefore the contentious issues were not resolved connected Monday nighttime gathering Akporeha said: “They tried to bring successful immoderate clauses. They didn’t hold connected our ain input portion we did not besides hold connected their input but contiguous we person been capable to harmonize that and we person signed.”

Highlighting immoderate of the clauses successful contention, helium said: They brought successful this DTCDA (Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association) which they don’t person close to bash and we person besides said that going forward, they shouldn’t unit immoderate national connected the workers, the absorption should not make immoderate national for the workers.”

The DTCDA is simply a caller Union formed by the absorption of Dangote refinery for its workers, but the NUPENG brag said that it has been agreed that it should beryllium disbanded, adding that the Ministry of Labour had already declared it an amerciable organization.

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