PENGASSAN expresses concern over alleged mass sack at Dangote Refinery

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has expressed interest implicit the alleged wide sack and intimidation of workers astatine the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals aft joining PENGASSAN.

This is contained successful a missive to the Zonal Chairman of PENGASSAN Lagos Zone, and jointly signed by members of the Caretaker Committee (CTC) of the recently unionised subdivision connected Thursday successful Abuja.

The signatories see Mr Eseoghene Choice, CTC subdivision secretary, and Mr Abdulfaitai Muhammed, CTC subdivision chairman, connected behalf of the union.

The committee alleged that absorption connected Thursday nighttime issued a termination announcement addressed to “all staff” of the refinery; a fewer hours aft workers affirmed their rank of PENGASSAN during a verification meeting.

“We regret to pass you that astatine astir 9:59 p.m., workers received a wide termination email,” it said.

The committee alleged that absorption withdrew unit buses, forcing members to walk arsenic overmuch arsenic ₦4,000 connected transportation, and denied them introduction into the refinery premises portion expatriates were allowed access.

It added that, astatine astir 6:30 p.m., unit members who had joined PENGASSAN were denied introduction into the refinery and were informed it was connected the orders of Alhaji Aliko Dangote,” it stated.

The CTC besides accused the absorption of targeting national leaders for apprehension and intimidation.

“We intercepted an interior directive ordering the apprehension and detention of the CTC president by the General Manager of Human Asset Management. This is simply a nonstop enactment of intimidation against national leaders,” it alleged, “it said.

The committee besides described the enactment arsenic a usurpation of Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees workers the close to state of association.

“These events intelligibly magnitude to targeted intimidation and victimisation of workers for exercising their law rights to state of association,” it added.

Meanwhile, Mr Femi Adekunle, Chief General Manager of Human Asset Management astatine Dangote Group, said the reorganisation followed aggregate cases of reported sabotage crossed refinery units that posed large information risks.

He said absorption was near with nary prime but to transportation retired a full reorganisation of the refinery, resulting successful the disengagement of the affected staff, effectual Thursday

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