PENGASSAN withdraws services nationwide, orders IOCs to cut gas supply to Dangote
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PENGASSAN withdraws services nationwide, orders IOCs to cut gas supply to Dangote.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has directed its members nationwide to withdraw all services, effective 12:01 a.m. on Monday, September 29, 2025.
It equally directed its members working across field locations, including control room operations, panel operations, and outfield personnel, to withdraw services effective 06:00 hours on Sunday, Sept 28, 2025, and commence 24-hour prayers.
At an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of all its branches on Saturday, the association said Dangote Refinery’s unilateral action to sack over 800 workers for joining PENGASSAN was an affront to all workers in Nigeria and a deliberate violation of Nigeria’s labour laws, the Federal Government’s Constitution, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention.
PENGASSAN General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa, in a statement, said Dangote Refinery’s notoriety for enslaving Nigerian workers, and the eventual sack of all Nigerians working in the refinery and hiring of 2,000 Indians, was a show of disloyalty to a country that has given him the most incentives any country has ever enjoyed in Nigeria, at taxpayers’ expense.
According to PENGASSAN, Dangote has subjected Nigerians to the worst type of working conditions in the oil and gas industry.
To this end, the association resolved that all processes that involve gas and crude supply to Dangote Refinery should be let off effectively immediately, even as it also urged all International Oil Companies (IOCs) branches to ramp down gas production and supply to Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals.
It said that the over 800 workers whose jobs have been given to Indians, “and their families are Nigerians, and victims were made to suffer unjustly, and there is an urgent need to avoid setting a dangerous precedent.
“That a man or company, no matter how highly placed, is above the law and cannot be called to order by the national institutions.”
PENGASSAN said the prayer point should include a call to “God Almighty to give courage to those in authority to rein in Dangote and his co-travelers on the need to obey the laws of our country,” adding that “No man is bigger than our country.”
