Mohammed Shosanya
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGANSSAN),Tuesday picket the offices of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) in Abuja over the poor welfare of the agency’s workers.
The workers blocked the offices in the nation’s capital’s Jabi District as early as 7:30 a.m. and preventied easy access to the premises.
Premium News reports that the embattled workers displayed placards with various inscriptions which drew the attention of the agency to their deplorable state and the need to reverse same.
The Chairman of PENGANSSAN,NUPRC branch, Engr. Okey Anya,who led the protest ,insisted that the action will remain peaceful, and the embattled workers will never be intimidated by anyone.
He disclosed that workers of NUPRC have been subjected to too many anti labour practices by their management for too long.
He said:”Workers have lost their confidence and self esteem, needed for productivity, due to inhumane treatment, and poor working environment.
” We are doing a peaceful protest against our welfare that has been neglected for so long. We have a situation where pension deduction are done and not remitted to the PMAs. We have a situation where our staff who have accessed our cooperative and have had deductions made, but Management has refused to remit them.
“We have a situation where our offices in Port Harcourt did not have light for over a month, we are talking about DPR that was a standard in the industry. All these situations are anti Labour practices, and we say no to them. We cannot be giving our best in the industry, making sure that the country remains afloat and we are neglected”.