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Nigerian oil workers have announced their resolve to frustrate President Jonathan’s plan to sell off the refineries to his ‘fronts’ and ‘cronies’.
Under the fused umbrella of NUPENG and PENGASSAN ( now called NUPENGASSAN), oil workers have accused the Federal Government of deliberately sabotaging the Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM) and the supply of crude oil to refineries to give them an excuse to sell the refineries to their ‘cronies’.
“This planned outright sale is uncalled for, inimical to economy and Nigeria as a nation. It will only benefit the officials of government who are pushing for the sale as their fronts and cronies are already being positioned to buy the refineries as scrap. We have said no to it and we will continue to say no. If government refuses to listen to voice of reason, we will have no other option to do the needful (shut down the sector) to protect these assets for generations unborn,” Comrade Babatunde Ogun, PENGASSAN president said.
He also said that if the government was really serious about assisting the oil sector, then they would deal with the issue of pipeline vandalism. If the problem of pipeline vandalism was taken care of, Babatunde Ogun assured, the refineries would be up and running.
He also said that the plan to privatize Nigeria’s refineries has been a plan by the FG since Obasanjo’s time, noting that the FG once sold the refineries through the Bureau for Public Enterprises. This sale was however reversed by the late President Umar Yar’Adua when it was meant with public outcry.
