Just In: Dangote warns PENGASSAN directive could trigger fuel scarcity, price hikes

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has cautioned that the caller directive by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to chopped crude lipid and state supplies to its installation could plunge Nigerians into different circular of substance scarcity, trigger terms hikes, and origin gross losses for the government.

In a connection released connected Saturday, the refinery said: “The products that would beryllium disrupted and stopped see but are not constricted to aviation fuel, petrol, kerosene, diesel and cooking state – each products that are utilized and required by each stripes of Nigerians and persons surviving successful Nigeria, whether precocious and mighty oregon lowly and ordinary.”

It warned that immoderate abrupt disruption of proviso would inflict hardship nationwide. “In what condition would it beryllium justified for PENGASSAN to truthful disrupt and present hardship into the surviving conditions of Nigerians? None that we tin see,” the institution said.

Beyond the contiguous effect connected citizens, the refinery highlighted the interaction connected authorities revenue. “Dangote Refinery is 1 of the largest contributors to the gross purse of the Nigerian governments – some Federal and sub-nationals. That publication is presently threatened by PENGASSAN and would of people beryllium paused if and arsenic soon arsenic and for arsenic agelong arsenic the PENGASSAN directive is implemented by its branches,” the connection noted.

The institution besides argued that the directive had nary ineligible basis. “Absolutely nary instrumentality gives PENGASSAN the close to nonstop its branches to ‘cut off’ state and crude lipid supplies to Dangote Refinery astatine all. Besides, it constitutes misconduct for PENGASSAN oregon its members to disrupt oregon interfere successful the declaration betwixt Dangote Refinery and its assorted vendors for the proviso of state and crude oil,” it stated.

Describing the refinery arsenic a strategical nationalist asset, the connection continued: “Dangote Refinery is the lone refinery of its benignant successful Africa and ordinarily should beryllium the pridefulness of each Nigerians arsenic good arsenic the governments of Nigeria. It should ordinarily person peculiar extortion and status.”

The institution urged swift intervention. “We telephone connected the Federal Government and information agencies to enactment swiftly. Nigerians should instrumentality enactment of the hardship which PENGASSAN wishes to inflict connected each of america if not checked. Fuel queues, vigor shortages and terms hikes could rapidly resurface,” it warned.

Concluding, Dangote Refinery appealed for dialogue: “We impulse PENGASSAN to taxable to amicable and ineligible solution and not edifice to actions that could present mayhem, disrupt the economy, and discourage concern successful Nigeria’s lipid and state sector.”

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