You Are After Check-off Dues, Not Workers’ Welfare, Dangote Tells Unions

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has accused the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of prioritising national dues and idiosyncratic interests implicit workers’ welfare, pursuing caller calls by the unions for concern action.

In a powerfully worded connection issued connected Monday, the refinery described the TUC arsenic “zombie-like” for declaring “full solidarity” with PENGASSAN and threatening nationwide onslaught enactment against its management, without making immoderate effort to verify the claims connected which the enactment was based.
The refinery noted, “We are told that helium who hears lone from 1 broadside and passes judgement without proceeding the different broadside is simply a fool. Unfortunately, the Trade Union Congress has placed itself successful that position. Without proceeding from Dangote Refinery, the Congress has passed a blameworthy verdict connected the Refinery’s absorption and present parrots the PENGASSAN line, zombie-like, calling for a nationalist concern enactment if Dangote absorption fails to comply with its demands.”

Dangote Refinery accused the unions of being driven solely by the tendency to unafraid check-off dues. The institution cited comments by PENGASSAN President Festus Osifo, who, successful a caller interrogation with Channels Television, stated that the national had written to Dangote Refinery to statesman remitting dues the time aft workers allegedly unionised.
The institution dismissed some unions arsenic self-serving and controlled by “oligarchs”, insisting that their existent docket is not the extortion of workers but the preservation of their fiscal interests.
“PENGASSAN and TUC are 2 peas successful a pod. They are twins from the aforesaid womb. Their interests bash not widen beyond themselves and the oligarchs that tally their affairs. The monthly check-off dues and different subscriptions and scams that provender their lifestyles are the superior interest and interests of these oligarchs. At least, 1 of them, Festus Osifo, President of PENGASSAN, admitted that overmuch connected nationalist tv precise recently.”

“During his interrogation with Seun Okunbaloye connected Channels TV, Osifo purported that “the workers” successful Dangote Refinery “unionised. . . connected Monday and we sent a missive to them astatine Dangote Refineries informing them of the determination and asking the organisation to remit their dues from source, connected Tuesday”. If we indispensable judge Osifo’s relationship – and Dangote Refinery is not thereby admitting the accuracy of his relationship – the PENGASSAN oligarchs could not adjacent hold for 24 hours aft the purported unionisation earlier demanding their monthly check-off dues. And connected relationship of these monthly check-off dues, PENGASSAN and its collaborators and co-conspirators – 1 of whom revealed itself arsenic Trade Union Congress – are acceptable to plunge Nigeria and Nigerians into utter acheronian and anarchy.”

It further alleged that neither PENGASSAN, TUC, nor allied unions specified arsenic NUPENG person offered accountability for the funds collected from workers. Instead, it accused them of backing “lavish and opulent lifestyles”.

“Meanwhile, nary of these Unions – PENGASSAN, TUC, NUPENG and its different unnamed co-travellers – fuss to springiness an relationship to their members and the Nigerian nationalist of these monthly check-off dues. We lone spot the impervious of these check-off dues’ payments successful their lavish and opulent lifestyles. It is clip Nigerians stood up against these enemies of progress,” the institution said.

The refinery called connected the Federal Government to defy what it described arsenic attempts by national leaders to instrumentality Nigeria to “the acheronian ages” of vigor insecurity and concern sabotage.

It declared, “Dangote Refinery is simply a nationalist plus that requires our corporate extortion and prayers. To paraphrase the TUC Press Release, TUC and its cohorts, ‘regardless of size oregon wealth’ indispensable not ‘be allowed to trample connected the dignity and rights of’ 230 cardinal Nigerians.”

The refinery challenged the unions to people their fiscal records, “Finally, we request that TUC articulation its co-travellers, PENGASSAN and NUPENG successful publishing its 10-year audited accounts. Surely, the workers successful whose sanction they each purport to beryllium working, merit to cognize what the Unions person been doing with their monthly check-off dues.”