SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, (THEWILL) – The three days strike action by oil workers scheduled to commence on Wednesday has been suspended.
This was revealed by the General Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Lumumba Okugbawa, has said.
He said the decision to suspend the strike action followed the intervention of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timpre Sylva, in the crisis.
An update on the crisis contained in a memo to all PENGASSAN and NUPENG affiliate chapters and branches across the country said “the matter has been apprehended and discussions ongoing with the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.”
The strike action was called to protest the alleged forceful enrolment of the oil workers into what they called “defective payment platform (the lntegrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (lPPlS)” by the federal government.
They said the strike action was pursuant to their demand concerning their members working in federal government agencies, whose salaries were withheld since May, over alleged non-compliance with the federal government’s directive by all its agencies to enroll on the IPPIS payment platform.
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The affected agencies include the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF), the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NNRA) and Petroleum Training Institute (PTI).
