‘Oil Workers’ Strike Will Deepen Hardship For Nigerians’, CSOs Warn Labour Unions

A conjugation of civilian nine organisations, religion leaders, and commercialized groups has powerfully condemned the caller actions of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) pursuing onslaught by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

The groups, which see the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations successful Nigeria (COCSON), Nigerian Interfaith Forum (NIF), National Coalition for Market Men, Women and Artisans (NACOMWA), and the Petroleum Consumers Protection Alliance (PCPA), described the onslaught arsenic “a nonstop battle connected the Nigerian people, our economy, and our future.”

Speaking astatine a property league successful Abuja, President of the coalition, Comrade Ibrahim Suleiman accused DAPPMAN of sabotaging indigenous refining initiatives, peculiarly the Dangote Refinery, successful bid to support power of substance importation and profiteering.

The groups besides warned that the onslaught enactment by labour unions would deepen hardship for millions of Nigerians already struggling with precocious inflation, rising transport costs, and nutrient insecurity. “Let america beryllium clear: this is not a onslaught for workers. It is simply a onslaught for cartels,” the connection read.

Welcoming a caller Federal High Court ruling that barred PENGASSAN from disrupting state proviso to the Dangote Refinery, the conjugation urged information agencies to enforce the judgement and forestall immoderate effort to sabotage section refining.

The organisations gave illustration with different nonrecreational unions, arguing that nary backstage endeavor should beryllium compelled into national rank against its will. They maintained that workers astatine the Dangote Refinery should clasp the state to determine whether oregon not to articulation a union.

The conjugation further announced plans to writer DAPPMAN for economical sabotage, mobilise nationwide rallies to cardinal authorities institutions, and escalate advocacy to determination and planetary bodies.

“We commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s committedness to industrialisation and vigor reforms, but immoderate effort to crook to DAPPMAN’s blackmail volition beryllium resisted,” the groups declared.

The statement, jointly signed by Comrade Ibrahim Suleiman (COCSON), Rev. Dr. Mathew Ayodele (NIF), Comrade Boma Agbede (NACOMWA), and Barr. Yusuf Danladi (PCPA), concluded with a stern warning: “Nigerians merit relief, not renewed suffering. DAPPMAN’s days of exploitation are numbered.”