Oil workers have shut down all offices and facilities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in protest of Tuesday’s splitting of the state oil company by the federal government.
There are fears of fresh fuel scarcity as a result of the protest. The government had announced the unbundling of the NNPC into seven independent units.
Two major unions in the oil and gas sector had on Friday rejected the planned splitting.
The spokesperson for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Emmanuel Ojugbana, had said that the union was not carried along in the decision to split the company.
Similarly, the president of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Igwe Achese, had said union would not accept the decision without knowing how the manpower that would operate in the 30 companies would be managed.
On Tuesday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, announced the unbundling of the oil company into seven independent units, namely Upstream, Downstream, Gas & Power Marketing, Refineries and Ventures, Corporate Planning & Services and Finance and Accounts.
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