The Area Consultative Forum, ACF, has called on labour unions in the country to be wary of actions that could sabotage or discourage indigenous private sector investment drives for Nigeria’s industrial development.
It noted that Nigeria labour unions ought to be wary of the real international conspiracy and related machinations and blackmail aimed at sabotaging Nigeria’s (and Africa’s) quests for indigenous industrial development.
A statement issued on Sunday by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba, reminded PENGASSAN that any negotiations’ outcome should be in the interest of all parties.
ACF strongly supported the on-going Federal Government-led negotiations to find a solution to impasse, as well as welcomed the truce reached, and called that appropriate sanction be meted to PENGASSAN for the alleged egregious refusal to obey a court order.
The forum also called for a commission of enquiry, with judicial powers, to unearth the brain or brains behind the incessant strikes by employees of vital national and private institutions.
According to the statement, “It is with great concern that the Arewa Consultative Forum has been monitoring the thinly disguised attempt to sabotage the world class Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Company, Ibeju, Lagos State, Nigeria’s largest and most modern indigenous industrial crude oil processing outfit, equipped with sophisticated machinery.
“ACF rues the fact that from conception, implementation and commissioning, the Dangote Refinery facility has continued to face unrelenting onslaught of sorts, including logistical challenges, public regulatory agencies’ misbegotten concerns about the quality of the Complex’s products, crude oil supplies from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), distribution, pricing problems.”
Be wary of sabotaging indigenous private sector investment – ACF to labour unions
