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NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by freshkpomo(m): 4:56pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has
threatened it would embark on industrial
action if the petrol scarcity biting the
country persists into the New Year.
NLC gave the threat in a statement issued on
Friday, December 29.
The statement however lauded the
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, for
directing the Senate Committee on
Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut
short its recess and immediately convene
industry stakeholders meeting to tackle the
petrol crisis.
However, a member of Nigeria Labour
Congress, Issa Aremu said the problems of
the downstream sector that have led to the
petrol crisis in the country exposes what he
described as “crisis of corporate
governance in the petroleum sector.”
According to him, the downstream sector
has a problem of “abysmal absence of
accountability, transparency and openness
in the administration of the petroleum
resources of Nigeria.”
He said only the legislature can bring an end
to the crisis in the sector, adding that by
directing the senate committee members to
resume duty and tackle the crisis, the Senate
had shown that the legislature is truly “a
vent for public grievances, a “useful organ
of public opinion.”
He said “there is a deep-seated conflict of
interest in the downstream sector.
Regulators are operators; regulators are
importers; importers are products hoarders,
regulators are also saboteurs.”
“Definitely, we have a sector captured in our
hands, Nigeria and Nigerians need
liberation.”
Aremu also called for a “total ban on
importation to reinvent domestic refineries
and beneficiation to crude oil,” alleging that
the “NNPC is the only public corporation that
annually awards its directors long service
incentives for no service at all, for non-
functioning refineries.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Petroleum Resources
(Downstream), Kabiru Marafa, had disclosed
that following the directive of the Senate
President, the committee has summoned the
Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe
Kachikwu, Group Managing Director of the
NNPC, Maikanti Baru and other relevant
stakeholders in the petroleum sector to a
crucial meeting on Thursday January 4,
2018. Harvested from (Vanguard) |
Re: NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by eshietIntrepid(m): 4:58pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
This toothless NLC still exist? 4 Likes |
Re: NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by uboma(m): 5:25pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
NLC should bury their heads in shame. They have become so irrelevant. 2 Likes |
Re: NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by Nobody: 5:28pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
Medicine after death......after they have been told the scarcity is over ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Like |
Re: NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by Bakerdav: 6:32pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
Medicine Again death,us nlc still in existence 1 Like |
Re: NLC Threatening To Strike If Fuel Scarcity Continue by sorom4: 7:13pm On Dec 29, 2017 |
NLC.....the JOKE is on you 2 Likes |
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