Forum Wants Union Probed Over Plot Against Dangote Refinery

A group, Concerned Nigerian Consumers Forum, has appealed to the national authorities and the Department of State Services (DSS) to analyse what it described arsenic hopeless attempts by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to undermine the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, a captious nationalist plus aimed astatine achieving Nigeria’s vigor independence.

In a connection signed by Comrade Olabisi Taiwo, president and Dr. Justice Akani Alikor, secretary, the forum expressed alarm implicit PENGASSAN’s threats to picket the $20 cardinal refinery implicit alleged wide sackings.

The radical accused the national of risking Nigeria’s instrumentality to substance scarcity, economical instability and nationalist embarrassment, urging Nigerians to question PENGASSAN’s motives.

“PENGASSAN alongside NUPENG played a important relation successful the illness of Nigeria’s nationalist refineries successful Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna,” the forum stated.

“They resisted reforms, blocked privatisation and crippled substance proviso with strikes. Their actions contributed to the rot that turned these refineries into relics of corruption and mismanagement,” it said.

Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train refinery with a capableness of 650,000 barrels per day, is simply a backstage inaugural designed to extremity Nigeria’s reliance connected imported fuel, stabilise prices, and make jobs.

The forum emphasised that the refinery, which employs implicit 3,000 Nigerians and continues to recruit, is not anti-labour but focused connected operational ratio and safety.

The company’s caller reorganisation, according to Dangote, was prompted by acts of sabotage that threatened operations.

The forum criticised PENGASSAN’s menace to picket the refinery contempt a tribunal bid restraining concern action, calling it “union overreach” and a usurpation of the regularisation of law.

It besides condemned the union’s inflammatory rhetoric, citing a metaphorical connection astir a “witch crying successful the night” arsenic reckless and divisive.

“Who benefits if the refinery fails?” it asked. “Certainly not the Nigerian people, but substance importers and rent seekers who nett from chaos.”

The radical urged PENGASSAN to prosecute successful dialogue, respect the courts, and prioritize nationalist interests implicit what it called “irresponsible unionism.”

It concluded by reaffirming its enactment for progress, stability, and the regularisation of law, urging each Nigerians to support the refinery arsenic a awesome of anticipation and a interruption from the nation’s troubled vigor past.