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PENGASSAN tasks Buhari on PIB, refineries, others

By Alemma-Ozioruva Aliu and Michael Egbejule, Benin
13 October 2015   |   12:46 am
The leadership of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) weekend urged the federal government to ensure a review and passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which generated so much controversy in the last administration and could not be passed.
Buhari

Buhari

The leadership of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) weekend urged the federal government to ensure a review and passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which generated so much controversy in the last administration and could not be passed.

President of PENGASSAN, Francis Olabode Johnson made this call in Benin City at the opening session of a two day training for its leadership titled “New skills in management of labour relations” where he also cautioned oil companies and oil majors to stop the practice laying off staff in the name of redundancy hiding under any slight change in prices of crude oil. He said the training was to create a cordial relationship between their members and employers.

“Between the staff and management of the oil and gas industries, we need to have more synergy that is the union and management because you can only work when the management survives but that also mean that the management must carry the union along in everything they are doing. We are using this medium and we are also going to meet with NAPIMS that oil majors, oil companies, oil servicing companies should not be taking advantage of the fact that there is fall in crude prices and now say redundancy, we are not going to accept. You cannot say because there is fall in crude oil price which is temporary and fluctuating, you will now say you want to make our members redundant and yet you are employing new people.”

On PIB, Johnson said, “For us, we need to let the government know that PIB is needed, this government must come out with a strong policy formation or legal framework, whatever name they want to call it to regulate te industry if it is not going to be PIB or whatever name, let the government come out with a strong policy work that can stabilise the industry like the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), like local content policy. Look at the telecommunication sector; it was not like this when we started it.

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