PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria,
PENGASSAN, yesterday, directed its members nationwide to begin a strike
from Thursday, following alleged government refusal to address pending
issues affecting the oil industry.
The impending strike,
according to PENGASSAN Acting General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa, will
affect all sub-sectors of the oil and gas industry, including the
upstream, the midstream and the downstream sectors.
In a memo dated
July 4, 2016, and addressed to all zonal chairmen, secretaries, all
branch chairmen and secretaries, the Senior Staff Association directed
its members to embark on gradual withdrawal of services from their
various offices, sites and production facilities.
Okugbawa said:
“Sequel to the above subject, the Association tried to engage the
Federal Government on May 24,, 2016, which was inconclusive. "The
engagement was later fixed for June 23, 2016, which did not take place
and again of June 30, 2016 which was unceremo- niously cancelled with no
new date given."
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