Seawolf : NUPENG Tasks AMCON On Members Entitlements

The Nigerian Union of Pe
troleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has urged the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to ensure that debts owed the union members are paid without unnecessary delay by the AMCON Management.
In a statement issued by the Union’s branch chairman of Seawolf Company Nigeria Limited Comrade Christian Okoji, on Monday after a protest March said AMCON had been owing the workers for 18 months, including their salaries and terminal benefits.
OKoji said that by December 2013 AMCON management came and bought the company with the assurance to the union members that they are going to change the system because the former management was  having financial  constraints.
He said the union members now sent all their personal data to the management of AMCON whereupon the workers were only paid for the months of December 2013 and January   respectively.
The union boss said AMCON had refused to pay them their salaries and terminal benefits amounting to over N3 billion despite the fact that the rigs the Union members had been working on are all functional, producing crude and making much money for operators on behalf of AMCON.
He said the national leadership of the union has appealed to the AMCON Management for a meeting in order to know the fate of the workers and know why AMCON Management  has refused to pay the union members their salaries, but the Asset management had refused to honour the union’s invitation for a meeting.
He said the union would use all available peaceful means to prevail on the AMCON Management to pay their salaries, stressing that the union was not responsible for any loans obtained by the former management of  Seawolf from any bank.
The Tide learnt that Seawolf Nigeria Limited was an oil services company operating in Delta State before it was taken over by AMCON over the company’s inability to service its loans obtained from First Bank Plc.