Financial Energy Review
…….by James Ikenna………..
Nigerians are heading toward another excruciating period of fuel scarcity as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has directed her members to proceed on a nationwide indefinite strike.
PENGASSAN said the directive became exigent over Federal Government’s breach in agreement on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) implementation and redundancy in Baker Hughes.
Although the exact details of the impending strike action were not available at the time of this report. The General Secretary of PENGASSAN, Lumumba Okugbawa, hinted that the strike might commence in the coming days.
Mr Okugbawa was quoted to have said the order for members to down tools was issued in a letter, dated November 8, 2020, a copy of which was sent to the Central Working Committee of the association.
The strike among other things was pursuant to the oil workers’ lingering disagreement with the federal government over the directive on the registration of some of its members on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
Although discussions over the issues have been going on for some time, the oil workers have accused the government of not making concrete moves to settle the differences.
Last week, long queues resurfaced in most filling stations in Abuja and its environs after oil workers threatened to commence its strike at the expiration of its ultimatum to the government on October 30.
