Shehu Sani Urges Dangote To Reinstate Sacked Workers Amid Face-off With Union

Former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has called connected the absorption of the Dangote Refinery to reinstate workers allegedly dismissed for joining commercialized unions, describing the enactment arsenic a usurpation of law rights and a menace to concern peace.

In a connection connected Monday shared via his authoritative X handle, Sani stressed that portion the refinery is simply a strategical nationalist asset, it indispensable run wrong the model of Nigeria’s labour laws and respect workers’ rights.

“Dangote should callback the workers sacked due to the fact that of their determination to articulation their commercialized unions. PENGASSAN should suspend their determination to chopped disconnected state proviso to the Dangote Refinery,” helium said.

The erstwhile Senator and quality rights activistic added, “The federation is arrogant of Dangote’s refinery and its unprecedented level of success, but the close of workers to unionise is embedded successful the laws of our country.”

Sani’s involution comes amid escalating tensions betwixt the refinery’s absorption and organised labour. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) alleged that implicit 800 workers were dismissed for national membership, an enactment it insists contravenes Nigeria’s labour laws and planetary conventions.

In response, the national ordered a nationwide shutdown of operations, including state and crude lipid proviso to the refinery. PENGASSAN further accused the institution of replacing Nigerian workers with “over 2,000 Indians,” a assertion that has sparked outrage among labour circles and civilian nine groups.

Dangote Refinery, however, pushed back, accusing the national of sabotage and selfish interests. The institution argued that the onslaught directive was “reckless, lawless and dangerous,” designed to weaponise hardship against Nigerians. It maintained that the dismissals were based connected information and ratio concerns, not anti-union victimisation, and noted that much than 3,000 Nigerians stay employed astatine the facility.

LEADERSHIP reports ENGASSAN’s onslaught already underway, concerns are mounting astir imaginable disruptions to refinery operations. The national authorities has summoned some parties to a gathering contiguous (Monday) successful an effort to forestall a wider concern situation successful the country’s oil and gas sector.