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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has told the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to permission Dangote Refinery alone, describing the onslaught enactment by lipid workers arsenic perfectly unnecessary.
MURIC’s Founder/Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola said connected Monday, wherever helium suspected hidden motives down the planned strike.
“Going by what Nigeria went done successful presumption of decades of substance shortages, agelong queues astatine petrol stations, precocious terms of substance which often ignited abrupt emergence successful the prices of goods and services, etc, PENGASSAN should person considered the interaction connected Nigerians earlier deciding to spell connected strike”, it added.
PENGASSAN had decided to spell connected onslaught from Monday arsenic a effect of commercialized quality with the Dangote Refinery implicit allegation of wide dismissal of astir 800 workers.
The radical accused the enactment of PENGASSAN of putting the payment of much than 250 cardinal Nigerians successful jeopardy due to the fact that of “an infinitesimal minority.”
It, truthful called connected the national authorities to support Dangote Refinery from what it called overbearing power of the lipid workers union.
“In our candid opinion, this onslaught is perfectly unnecessary. It appears determination are different hidden motives. Going by what Nigeria went done successful presumption of decades of substance shortages, agelong queues astatine petrol stations, precocious terms of substance which often ignited abrupt emergence successful the prices of goods and services, etc, PENGASSAN should person considered the interaction connected Nigerians earlier deciding to spell connected strike.
“It is simply a narrow-minded, parochial and unpatriotic decision. It is arsenic a astir unpopular measurement and Nigerians from antithetic walks of beingness person expressed their disapproval of the strike,” Akintola said.
MURIC cited the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) arsenic an illustration of labour unions which allowed backstage universities to relation without interference.
It further referenced the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) which does not meddle successful the moving of privately-owned transport companies with their drivers not joining the nationalist assemblage of drivers’ union.
“We, truthful telephone connected the Federal Government to support Dangote Refinery from the excesses of PENGASSAN and immoderate different outer workers union. Our telephone is hinged connected the involvement and wide payment of Nigerian citizens arsenic good arsenic that of the Nigerian economy,” helium said.
Akintola stressed that, “It besides behoves FG to dainty Dangote Refinery arsenic a precedence task of the Nigerian lipid assemblage which has started stabilising the dollar, feeding section lipid needs and providing jobs.
“The interaction of Dangote Refinery is already being felt passim the satellite thereby earning tons of respect for Nigeria successful the comity of nations. Already, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has confirmed that Dangote Refinery is pushing its European counterparts which hitherto serviced the Nigerian marketplace retired of business.
“The information that this refinery has been capable to bring the terms of petrol down should besides beryllium considered. This is simply a origin that tin assistance FG successful controlling Nigeria’s inflation.
“It is unthinkable that a chap Nigerian volition put $23 cardinal successful a 650,000 barrels per time refinery aimed astatine ameliorating the sufferings of the Nigerian masses lone for a workers’ national from extracurricular to dictate outrageous presumption to him.”
Akintola said specified a national should beryllium treated arsenic an economical saboteur, adding, “It is precocious clip FG chopped the wings of extremist national leaders. Times similar this telephone for beardown leadership. FG must be decisive.”
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