PENGASSAN Seeks Job Security For Members

The newly elected
President of the petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) Comrade Francis Olabode Johnson has urged for job security for members of the union.
Johnson stated this shortly after his election at the Union 4th Triennial National Delegates Conference held in Abuja recently.
He said the union under his leadership will focus more on ways of ensuring job security, decent employment conditions for members of the union coupled with local content implementation.
The union boss explained that none of the sub-sectors of the workers’ union in the oil and gas industry would be allowed to go into extinction, stressing that the services sector which was endangered and threatened by extinction, would not die as job security would be priority of his leadership.
He said that the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Development Act 2010 defines local content as “the quantum of composite value added to or created in Nigeria through utilisation of resources and services in the Petroleum industry resulting in the development of indigenous capability without compromising quality, health, safety and environment standards”.
He further explained that the Act was framed within the context of growth of Nigeria, entrepreneurship and the domestication of assets to fully realise Nigeria’s strategic development goals.
He said the union will also put pressure on the government for increase in oil and gas reserves through aggressive exploration employment generation for all categories of Nigerians.
Johnson also added that the union would ensure increased production capacity integration of the oil and gas industry into the mainstream economy through local refineries and petrochemicals.