Amidst uncertainty over the direction of the petroleum sector reform policy of the federal government, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called for a total review of the sector so as to redirect the sector towards the path of sanity.PENGASSAN gave the advice at the end of its National Executive Council meeting which held in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. In a communiqué which was issued at the end of the meeting and which was jointly signed by Mr. Babatunde Ogun and Bayo Olowoshile, its President and General Secretary respectively, the association noted that disrespect for labour laws was the cause of industrial crises in the oil industry. In the communiqué which was sighted by Shipping Position Weekly, the union recalled that some of its members are still been held by kidnappers and consequently urged oil sector workers to keep pressing for the release of these people.
On the on-going reforms of the sector, PENGASSAN submitted that the institutional and operational reforms were long over due and that it was desirable to match the pace of development in the energy sector with the much-expected reforms which according to it, will have a serious effect on the nation’s industrial development.It also advised that the targets of the reforms should be carefully defined, bearing in mind the current global economic realities and national interest so as not to jeopardise the good spirit and intent it intends to achieve.
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