Oil Workers’ Strike: Chambers Of Commerce, Employers Warn Of Economic Disaster, Urge Urgent Resolution

Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has warned against the interaction connected the economy, arsenic the onslaught by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) against Dangote Refinery entered its 2nd time connected Tuesday.
Also, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has frowned astatine the lipid workers’ ongoing action, informing that it amounts to self-help and is tantamount to economical sabotage susceptible of derailing the country’s fragile economical recovery.

The director-general of NECA, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, emphasised that “conflict is an inevitable diagnostic of the labour ecosystem, and Nigeria has statutory and organization frameworks designed to code immoderate disputes, including the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN).”

Oyerinde called connected the Minister of Labour and Employment to enactment decisively by stopping the wanton and wilful denigration of Nigeria’s concern relations system. He stated, “With Nigeria sending 1 of the highest delegations to the ILO Conference annually, it is funny that basal concern relations principles, Conventions, and Recommendations stay poorly applied.”

He called for the quality to beryllium resolved done lawful and constructive channels, informing that nonaccomplishment to enactment decisively could person far-reaching consequences for economical sustainability, occupation instauration and preservation, concern attraction and promotion and nationalist development.
However, helium noted, “Any enactment susceptible of discouraging investment, undermining enterprises’ sustainability, oregon harming the workers the unions assertion to support volition beryllium counter-productive. While commercialized unions person the morganatic close to embark connected concern action, specified rights indispensable beryllium exercised responsibly and wrong the bounds of the law.

“It is unacceptable for immoderate national to conscript oregon coerce those not funny successful its enactment oregon disrupt the operations of morganatic businesses not enactment to the dispute. Treating Institutions of labour medication with disdain and resorting to self-help is not lone absurd but besides against each known Conventions and Recommendations.”

According to the DG, “When employers oregon workers are aggrieved, institutions are created to adjudicate oregon arbitrate specified matters. Nigeria’s recovering system cannot beryllium sacrificed connected the altar of actions and pronouncements alien to planetary and section concern relations practice. ”

Citing planetary labour instruments, including ILO Conventions 87 and 98, Oyerinde reaffirmed NECA’s committedness to upholding planetary labour standards, decent work, and liable concern behaviour portion not negotiating employers’ rights to negociate their enterprises and investments wrong the law.

Meanwhile, NACCIMA cautioned that the ongoing quality threatens to unleash an economical catastrophe crossed Nigeria if not promptly and peacefully resolved.NACCIMA expressed heavy interest implicit the imaginable nationwide interaction of the strike, emphasising that the vigor assemblage is pivotal to the country’s wide economical stability. The disruption of operations astatine Dangote Refinery, 1 of Nigeria’s astir extended lipid processing facilities, could severely undermine vigor proviso chains, cripple proscription networks, stall manufacturing activities, and destabilise indispensable nationalist services.

Engr. Jani Ibrahim, the nationalist president of NACCIMA, described the concern arsenic a captious infinitesimal for the Nigerian economy. He warned, “The nationwide shutdown wrong the vigor assemblage astatine this clip is simply a crippling stroke to Nigeria’s gradually stabilising economy.

The ripple effects volition beryllium felt crossed each sectors, risking occupation losses, accelerating inflationary pressures, and eroding capitalist confidence.”Ibrahim further stressed that dialog betwixt each parties progressive indispensable beryllium concluded without delay. “The concern assemblage is alarmed, recognising that peaceful and constructive negotiations are vital. This is not a substance of prime but a pressing necessity if Nigeria’s economical advancement is to beryllium preserved.”

In a telephone to action, NACCIMA urged the national government, PENGASSAN leadership, and Dangote Refinery absorption to instantly instrumentality to the dialog array for a mutually beneficial resolution. The relation underscored that maintaining concern bid and fostering unfastened connection are indispensable strategies to support livelihoods, stabilise the refining capableness captious to Nigeria’s vigor independence, and reconstruct assurance among some section and planetary investors.NACCIMA besides reaffirmed its readiness to enactment and, if necessary, facilitate dialog among stakeholders to guarantee that nationalist economical interests are prioritised. Engr. Ibrahim highl...