The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to intervene in the recent industrial dispute between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Dangote Refinery.
This followed a motion urging for the protection of strategic private investments from what lawmakers described as “adversarial unionism.”
The motion, titled “Need to protect strategic private investments from adversarial unionism,” was sponsored by Alhassan Doguwa (APC, Kano) and Abdussamad Dasuki (PDP, Sokoto).
It comes in the wake of the strike action by PENGASSAN that disrupted operations at the $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s largest single-train refinery over a labour dispute.
The dispute occurred while the lawmakers were on recess that lasted over two months.
Disruption at the Dangote Ref
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