Untangles cliques at NNPC, ASCSN tells FG | The Guardian Nigeria News

• Insists that the one-week ultimatum regarding the increase in electricity rates be maintained

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called on the Federal Government to highlight the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and unravel conspiracies in the oil sector.

The President of ASCSN, Dr. Tommy Okon, said this yesterday during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the association in Lagos, stating that the continued shortage of petrol and long queues at filling stations were holding back the economy and creating untold difficulties. on the citizens.

This is just as the union boss insisted that the one-week ultimatum given by the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) and the Nigerian Trade Union Congress (TUC) on the reversal of the May Day electricity tariff increase remains on foot.

He maintained that the warning stood and that the workers remained firm in the ultimatum.

He said the unions were more concerned because the government gave assurance that the Port Harcourt refinery would start operations in April and also when the Dangote refinery starts operations, all challenges over the cost of shipping gasoline to marketers would cease and the subsidy issue would be a problem. From the past.

“But it’s May, why do we keep coming and going? This policy takes a somersault, whose fault is it? NNPC should be honest and tell us the truth: are they still paying subsidies? Let it come out of your mouth and let us know instead of speculating.

“If the organized workers had protested and opposed the elimination of the fuel subsidy, they would have said that the workers were the cause, otherwise there would not have been long queues at the service stations. Now the government has said it is a problem of logistics and huge dollars for marketers for the cost of landing, who is fooling who? Because President Bola Tinubu assured us that if they removed the fuel subsidy, there would be an interaction of market forces, but now we are even going back to square one,” he said.

On the workers’ proposed national minimum wage of N615,000, he said it was realistic and stated that the workers’ demands were very clear.

Okon stressed that those who criticize it must come out clearly and argue against the figure.

“We have set the template, we have made the variables and we have made the presentation and that is our position. There are exemptions and I am the chairman of the exemption committee and when the time comes you will see. What we want is for the government to do what is necessary and remember that when we reached the figure, there was no increase in the electricity rate.”