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Ex-NUPENG Chief Lauds PPPRA’s Scribe For Probity
The Executive Secretary, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr Reginald Stanley, has been commended for entrenching transparency and sanity in the operations of the agency.
The former President of the blue-collar National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Mr Peter Akpatason, gave the commendation in Abuja last Sunday.
Akpatason, who is now a member of the House of Representatives, was reacting to the recent suspension of a Swiss Oil Trading Company, NIMEX by the management of the PPPRA.
He said that Stanley had since he assumed office, shown the resolve and firmness necessary to realise the transformation agenda of the Federal Government in the downstream sector.
The unionist said that Stanley had demonstrated strong ability to carry oil and gas unions along in achieving the set goals of government in the oil industry.
Akpatason, who is the Sub-committee Chairman of the PPPRA in the house, recalled that Stanley had demonstrated similar ability during his stint as Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC).
The former NUPENG chief said that Stanley had always had friendly disposition toward workers and unions, including NUPENG and PENGASSAN during his tenure as the chief executive officer of PPMC.
Akpatason affirmed that he ahs had close association with Stanley for many years, pointing out that “anyone who describes Mr Stanley as anti-labour is obviously misfiring and crying wolf when there is none.
“In my understanding of the attitude of Mr Stanley during my interactions with him, I can say it anywhere without mincing words that Stanley is a gentleman. He is not anti-union,” Akpatason said.
The lawmaker noted that it was dangerous for unscrupulous people and mischief makers to embark on campaign of calumny in a bid to distract the new PPPRA helmsman in his determination to achieve set goals of government.
Akpatason warned newsmen to be wary of entrenched fifth-columnists in the oil and gas industry, whom he said, had been fighting hard to thwart the resolve of government to bring decorum to the energy sector.
On May 6, the management of the PPPRA announced the suspension of a Swiss firm NIMEX, for failing to provide detailed documentation on its oil trading activities in Nigeria.
Announcing the suspension, Stanley said that the action was a clear warning to all marketers that a new regime of transparency and due process in the oil and gas industry had come to stay.
The downstream sector has been undergoing tremendous reforms in recent months, following the directive issued to ministries and agencies by President Goodluck Jonathan in pursuit of the transformation agenda of his administration.
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