The Nigeria Union of
Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers will commence its planned three-day warning
strike today (Wednesday) over unresolved issues with some
International Oil
Companies operating in the country.
The union said it
had given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to intervene in a bid to
resolve the issues, but nothing changed.
The Chairman,
NUPENG, South-West zone, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, told Punch that “We have
planned a national three-day warning strike commencing from January 11; it is
about the activities of the IOCs, including the divestment by Chevron that
affected about 250 workers and the termination of the appointment of 48
contract workers by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in 2014 without the payment
of terminal benefits.
“The issues are
still begging for government’s intervention. They inherited them from the past
administration, but we have been discussing the issues with the present
government. We now said, ‘We can no longer fold our arms and allow our members
to be maltreated this way.’ If the government fails to intervene, Nigerians
should not blame us for any eventuality that happens thereafter.”
Reuters reported on
Tuesday that some oil workers had gone on strike at the Oleh crude oil flow
station in Warri, saying they had not been paid.
“The striking
workers at the Oleh flow station, besides the struggle for good pay and
conditions of service, are also asking for their rights to be unionised,” the
Warri Zonal Chairman of NUPENG, Mr. Cogent Ojobo, was quoted as saying.
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