Senior Civil Servants threaten solidarity strike with PENGASSAN against Dangote

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

ABUJA—The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN,  has vowed to articulation the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, successful solidarity onslaught enactment if the absorption of Dangote Petroleum Refinery fails to reinstate workers allegedly dismissed for national activities.

In a connection issued successful Abuja, ASCSN President, Shehu Mohammed, described the reported sack of national members arsenic a “gross violation” of Section 40 of the Nigerian Constitution, which guarantees state of association, and a breach of International Labour Organization, ILO, conventions ratified by Nigeria.

“Such acts are unacceptable and cannot beryllium tolerated successful a democracy. We basal shoulder-to-shoulder with TUC and PENGASSAN successful demanding the contiguous reinstatement of each affected workers, arsenic good arsenic an autarkic probe into Dangote Refinery’s anti-labour practices,” Mohammed declared.

The national warned that nonaccomplishment to resoluteness the substance swiftly could trigger wider concern unrest, stressing that “an wounded to 1 idiosyncratic is an wounded to all.”

ASCSN besides commended the TUC for placing affiliates connected standby for imaginable nationwide action, saying it was prepared to articulation “in afloat force” should Dangote Group neglect to comply.

“This is simply a defining infinitesimal for Nigeria’s labour movement. No employer, nary substance however influential, volition beryllium allowed to trample connected the rights and dignity of workers,” Mohammed added.

The quality betwixt PENGASSAN and Dangote Refinery has continued to escalate contempt appeals for dialogue, raising fears of a broader shutdown crossed captious sectors if solidarity actions are triggered.

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