Oil workers have shut down the operations of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) nationwide
following Tuesday’s unbundling of the corporation.
Members of staff and management of the corporation arrived
their various offices on Wednesday morning to discover that
they could not gain entrance following the total strike.
The immediate impact of the strike will be nationwide fuel
scarcity as products will not be lifted by NUPENG. It is not
expected to affect the crude oil export yet except the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) joins in
solidarity. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of state for petroleum
resources who doubles as the NNPC Group Managing
Director, had announced the creation of seven independent
units on Tuesday, namely downstream, gas and power,
refineries, ventures, corporate planning and services, and
finance and accounts.
The Group Executive Committee (GEC) of the Nigeria Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the
National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
(NUPENG) convened an emergency meeting at 10pm on
Tuesday to discuss the development. At the end of the
meeting, GEC sent this message to all members:
“The GEC of NUPENG & PENGASSAN at its meeting of 8th
March 2016, which started at 10:00pm, has extensively
discussed the pronouncement of the GMD on NNPC
UNBUNDLING. We observed that the GMD/HMSP totally
disregarded due process and failed to engage
STAKEHOLDERS.
Hence, from midnight today (Tuesday), ALL NNPC
LOCATIONS will be SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY until further
notice. Further directives will be communicated
accordingly.”
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) nationwide
following Tuesday’s unbundling of the corporation.
Members of staff and management of the corporation arrived
their various offices on Wednesday morning to discover that
they could not gain entrance following the total strike.
The immediate impact of the strike will be nationwide fuel
scarcity as products will not be lifted by NUPENG. It is not
expected to affect the crude oil export yet except the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) joins in
solidarity. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of state for petroleum
resources who doubles as the NNPC Group Managing
Director, had announced the creation of seven independent
units on Tuesday, namely downstream, gas and power,
refineries, ventures, corporate planning and services, and
finance and accounts.
The Group Executive Committee (GEC) of the Nigeria Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the
National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
(NUPENG) convened an emergency meeting at 10pm on
Tuesday to discuss the development. At the end of the
meeting, GEC sent this message to all members:
“The GEC of NUPENG & PENGASSAN at its meeting of 8th
March 2016, which started at 10:00pm, has extensively
discussed the pronouncement of the GMD on NNPC
UNBUNDLING. We observed that the GMD/HMSP totally
disregarded due process and failed to engage
STAKEHOLDERS.
Hence, from midnight today (Tuesday), ALL NNPC
LOCATIONS will be SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY until further
notice. Further directives will be communicated
accordingly.”
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