Why Dangote Refinery Must Resist PENGASSAN – Kalu Aja

Financial educator Kalu Aja has commented on the dispute between the management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) over the dismissal of Nigerian workers.

Reacting to the development on Friday, Aja said Dangote Refinery should not allow PENGASSAN to unionize the company.

According to him, Dangote Refinery will turn to Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, if it allows PENGASSAN to unionize the company.

Aja said the union should establish its own refinery if it insists on unionizing Dangote’s facility.

“PENGASSAN should go and build their own refinery, then unionize it. The day unions enter that Dangote Refinery, it becomes NNPC,” he wrote on X.

His comment comes after the refinery terminated the employment of all its Nigerian staff less than 24 hours after 90 percent of them joined PENGASSAN.

The company said the decision was part of a “total re-organisation” of the plant, citing reported cases of sabotage.

PENGASSAN President, Festus Osifo, however, confirmed the mass sack and assured that the company would be compelled to reverse its decision.