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By Victor Ahiuma-Young
The Federal Government has directed the absorption of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to afloat instrumentality the September 9 statement connected workers’ close to articulation a national of their choice.
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The directive followed the 2nd involution successful 4 days by the Department of State Services, DSS, successful the escalating face-off betwixt the refinery and NUPENG.
Vanguard gathered that the bid was issued astatine a gathering held connected Thursday astatine the DSS office successful Abuja.
The league was attended by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha; representatives of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA; the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC; NUPENG leaders; and the Dangote absorption squad led by Mr. Sayyu Dantata, Group Managing Director.
According to sources astatine the meeting, authorities officials expressed displeasure implicit reports that agents of the institution were allegedly removing NUPENG stickers from trucks and granting entree lone to vehicles affiliated with the Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association, DTCDA, believed to person been sponsored by the refinery.
The authorities reportedly warned that specified actions were the main origin of renewed hostilities and urged some parties to adhere strictly to the memorandum of understanding, MoU.
September 9 MoU
The September 9 MoU, which was signed by representatives of Dangote management, NUPENG, the NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, NMDPRA and the Ministry of Labour, affirmed that unionisation is simply a cardinal close of workers astatine the refinery.
It directed that the process of enrolling employees into the national beryllium completed betwixt September 9 and 22, 2025.
The pact besides forbids the instauration of employer-sponsored oregon alternate unions, guarantees that nary idiosyncratic volition beryllium victimised for joining the onslaught oregon supporting unionisation, and mandates that some parties study backmost to the Minister of Labour a week aft the workout is concluded.
Sources said the DSS and the Ministry of Labour made it wide that determination would beryllium nary tolerance for further breaches and urged contiguous compliance with the accord to reconstruct concern harmony.
DSS had summoned the absorption of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals and enactment NUPENG, to an exigency gathering pursuing rising hostility implicit an alleged breach of an statement connected workers’ close to beryllium the national of their choice.
On September 11, aft the signing of the MoU, NUPENG accused Dangote’s absorption of violating the pact — an allegation the institution denied.
As of property time, neither the refinery absorption nor NUPENG had issued an authoritative connection connected the latest directive.
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