Dangote: Women’s Group Threatens Protest Against Oil Workers

A conjugation of women groups nether the umbrella of Women successful Trade Alliance (WOTA) has threatened to embark connected nationwide protests against the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) implicit what it described arsenic an effort to frustrate the operations of Dangote Refinery.

PENGASSAN declared a onslaught yesterday, but the radical said the concern enactment targeting Dangote Refinery was unnecessary and anti-people.

WOTA said it was portion of the plans by “oil cabals to gully Nigeria backmost to the days of rising prices and uncontrollable marketplace manipulations.”

Speaking successful Jos yesterday, the group’s secretary, Mrs Dorothy Ishaya Ninret, warned that Nigerian women would not hesitate to instrumentality to the streets if commercialized unions continued what she described arsenic “undue and selfish interference” with investments that had helped trim substance prices.

She said, “In the look of the ongoing concern enactment against the Dangote Refinery, we are calling connected the authorities to urgently telephone the unions to bid earlier they resistance Nigeria backmost to the acheronian days of marketplace manipulation and unbearable substance prices.”

The conjugation recalled that since 2024, the Dangote Refinery had consistently reduced prices of petroleum products, helping Nigerians header with the harsh economical realities pursuing the removal of substance subsidy.

“Anyone trying to frustrate Dangote’s involution is trying to frustrate each of us,” Ninret said.

She continued, “These aforesaid unions were portion and parcel of the moribund government-owned refineries. They don’t attraction if the refineries work; they lone privation to support their constrictive interests.

“How agelong volition the authorities let these greedy unionists to clasp businesses, investors and the full state hostage?”

WOTA urged the authorities and different captious stakeholders to defy what it described arsenic “gang-ups” against Dangote Refinery, insisting that the company’s efforts had provided Nigerians with the lone existent alleviation since the subsidy removal.