Leave Dangote alone, fix your refineries, Onuesoke tells NUPENG

By Ephraim Oseji

Chairman/CEO of DAS Energy Services, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has called connected the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to desist from targeting Dangote Refinery and alternatively absorption its vigor connected advocating for the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s long-dormant government-owned refineries.

This follows a caller standoff betwixt NUPENG and the absorption of Dangote Refinery, stemming from allegations that the refinery was preventing petroleum tanker drivers from joining the union, contrary to provisions successful the Trade Union Act. NUPENG responded with concern action, shutting down substance depots crossed the country.

Speaking astatine the sidelines of an Oil and Gas Workshop held precocious successful Abuja, Onuesoke condemned the union’s actions, informing that specified confrontations could deter some section and overseas investors.

“Instead of warring Dangote, NUPENG should transmission its vigor into questioning wherefore the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries stay non-functional contempt billions of dollars spent connected turnaround maintenance. What relation has NUPENG played successful holding those liable accountable?”, helium queried.

Onuesoke challenged the national to disclose however implicit $18 cardinal was reportedly spent connected the refineries without immoderate tangible results, adding that continued attacks connected backstage investments similar the Dangote Refinery service lone to undermine nationalist economical progress.

He besides referenced NUPENG’s humanities absorption to the 2007 effort to privatise the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, wherever Dangote was portion of the acquiring consortium. That resistance, helium said, led to the reversal of what could person been a important measurement toward reviving the nation’s refining capacity.

“The national indispensable beryllium called to order. Investors are intimately watching, and this benignant of behaviour paints Nigeria successful a atrocious light,” Onuesoke said.

“Let maine punctual NUPENG: without backstage investors similar Dangote, determination would beryllium nary level for employment, and frankincense nary national to statesman with.”

He described NUPENG’s attack arsenic “economic desperation” and warned that its actions could beryllium a large setback to President Bola Tinubu’s efforts to pull concern into Nigeria’s lipid and state sector.

“This benignant of retrogressive agitation volition lone discourage some overseas and section investors, contempt the government’s caller enforcement orders to stimulate maturation and enactment indigenous refining,” helium said.

While acknowledging the close of workers to unionize, Onuesoke stressed that specified decisions indispensable beryllium voluntary and handled with maturity and nationalist involvement successful mind.

“Trade unions person a work to enactment with patriotism, not self-interest. Their existent behaviour exposes an anti-business cognition that does much harm than good,” helium stated.

Concluding, helium urged Nigerians to rally down the Dangote Refinery project.

“This is the largest single-train refinery successful the world—a

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