Neconde Energy to face shut down over sacked workers
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened to shut down the operations of Neconde Energy Limited in Lagos and Warri for sacking five of its members that work in Neconde without following due process.
Neconde Energy Limited is the exploration and production (E&P) arm of the Obijackson Group, the operator of the oil mining lease (OML) 42 located in Delta State.
In a letter dated June 2, 2017 and signed by the General Secretary, Comrade Lumumba Okugbawa and copied the Ministers of Labour and Employment and Petroleum Resources (State), as well as the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Chief Executive Office, Neconde and relevant officials of PENGASSAN, the group demanded for reversal of the sack within 72 hours by Neconde or face shut down.
The letter entitled: ‘Termination of the employment of our members’, said: “Information reaching us indicates that your management has summarily terminated the employment of five of our members in your organisation without regard to due process and the extant labour laws.
“We are taken aback by this ugly development as it is happening few weeks after the Association’s industrial action against your organisation. We are aware that the affected members didn’t opt out for severance and that brings to fore the needlessness of their termination of appointment which is a clear case of victimisation.
“The action of your management also negates item 5(b) of the recently signed communiqué of May 15-18, 2017.”
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