The Lagos branch Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG), Alhaji Tokunboh Korodo has said that despite the fact that the Petroleum Industry Bill? (PIB) has passed its second reading at the National Asseembly, the Union is going to present its own view to the Law makers next week.
According to him, that is the reason why they have convened at Calabar, Cross River State to articulate their views in other that every clause in the PIB that is anti-labour must not see the light of the day.
He told LEADERSHIP that both NUPENG and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASAN) were presenting common view for the PIB.
On what are the areas they desire to be fine tune in the PIB, he said that he was not ready to pre-empt their view till next week.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Petroleum and National Gas Senior? Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Camrade Folorunso Ogginni told LEADERSHIP that workers were? piqued that a different bill was smuggled into the National Assembly to define the legal frame work for those intending to invest in refineries in Nigeria? as well as take care of both existing refineries and new ones.
This, he said, was a plan by the authority to sell off the existing refineries under the guise of privatisation. ‘We are mobilising our members to ensur that we are part of the public hearing on the PIB’ he said.