Local Content: PENGASSAN, NCDMB To Collaborate On Monitoring

The Petroleum and Natu
ral Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), said it would collaborate with the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to ensure compliance with the Local Content Act
This is contained in a statement signed by the President of PENGASSAN, Mr Babatunde Ogun.
The statement said the union would ensure that companies operating in the oil and gas sector complied with the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act.
According to the statement, the collaboration is statutory and a key obligation.
“PENGASSAN would always champion and build strong advocacy on matters of interest to its members, labour and the wider society at large’’ the statement added.
Ogun assured that the association would work with NCDMB to ensure that the Act was complied with.
“Where there are abuses of expatriate quota or any contravention and circumvention of provisions of the NOGICD Act to guarantee compliance, we will let the board know. Since the main objective of the Act is to create more jobs in the country,’’ he said.
The president also listed other areas of collaboration to include advocacy and support of socio-economic programmes as well as benefits that foster mutual co-existence among companies and host communities.