The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has responded to the threat that the Federal government might be pushed to dissolve the union.
Speaking to Punch, the national chairman of the Association, Festus Osifo argued that there is no law that prohibits workers from going on strike.
He warned that PENGASSAN would take the same action if its members were sacked again.
“Does the law prohibit workers’ right to strike.
“Should this same event occur again tomorrow, our approach will be exactly the same,” he stated.
Naijaonpoint reports that vice president Kashim Shettima had condemned the union’s industrial action, insisting that Dangote as an institution and a pillar of Nigeria’s economic development.
He noted that Nigeria is greater than PENGASSAN, and no one should hold the country to ransom.
“Aliko Dangote is not an individual; he’s an institution, and he’s a leading light in Nigeria’s economic parliament,” the Vice President said
However, speaking to the aforementioned publication, Osifo said, “Of course the nation is bigger than PENGASSAN, the way it’s bigger than Dangote and the Presidency. We have a mandate to protect the jobs of our members, that we will discharge whenever the need arises.”
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