The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers under
the auspices of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers NUPENG and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria PENGASSAN, to halt their planned industrial action over a labour dispute involving the Management of Chevron Nigeria Limited, a Multi-national Oil Company operating in Nigeria, and its staff.
In a statement in Abuja, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Sir Ndu Ughamadu, said Dr Baru has directed its Management to work with other stakeholders to resolve the issue raised by the leadership of the Oil Industrial unions.
The unions had recently called on the National Assembly, the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the NNPC, the Department of State Service, to intercede in a brewing impasse between Chevron Nigeria Limited and its staff in Nigeria over the company’s disclosure that the contracts with all its manpower service providers would expire by the end of October 2018.
While thanking the oil workers for their exemplary conduct and show of support through the years, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC appealed to the Unions not to do anything that would disrupt the industrial harmony that has pervaded the sector, saying the gains of recent past, if care is not taken, can be frittered away inadvertently.
Meanwhile, the NNPC has allayed the concerns of motorists and other consumers of petroleum products over possible hiccups in supply in parts of the country due to the oil workers’ ultimatum, assuring that NNPC holds adequate storage of petroleum products across the country to take care of the national demand.
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