Dangote Refinery’s DTCDA disbanded for workers’ unionisation to thrive –NUPENG

*Dangote Petroleum Refinery ‘shouldn’t force any union on the workers; the Management should not create any union for the workers’, going forward, says NUPENG

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

Following the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the oil-refining company, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has disclosed the Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association (DTCDA) established by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Lagos, has been disbanded.

ConsumerConnect reports NUPENG said the disbandment of DTCDA, earlier established by the Management of Dangote Refinery, is part of the agreement reached between the leadership of the Union, and representative of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited before NUPENG halted its strike Tuesday, September 9.

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The leadership of the Union, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, and representative of Dangote Refinery reached the agreement Tuesday, at the

at the Department of State Services (DSS) Headquarters, in Abuja, FCT.

Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, Honourable Minister for Labour and Employment, disclosed the choice of the DSS office was meant to have a different environment to discuss.

The Minister said the facility afforded the opportunity for the Minister of Finance to be in attendance.

Comrade Williams Akporeha, President of NUPENG, said all contentious issues has been resolved.

Akporeha said: “We signed agreement and members have agreed to unionisation of workers in Dangote Petrochemicals Refinery.”

The President of NUPENG also noted that the strike was suspended immediately, and that tankers have started loading products.

On the alleged uncompromising behaviour exhibited by the Dangote Refinery representative, the NUPENG President said that the Dangote team yet denied anything of such.

Akporeha said: “They said they didn’t walk out.

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“The man (Dangote Refinery representative) said he was hungry and has ulcer.

“So, he had to go and eat, that there was nothing like he walk out.”

As regards the reason some contentious issues were not resolved at Monday night meeting, Akporeha told Vanguard: “They tried to bring in some clauses. They didn’t agree on our own input while we did not also agree on their input but today we have been able to harmonise that and we have signed.”

He as well highlighted some of the clauses in contention.

Akporeha stated: “They brought in this DTCDA (Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association), which they don’t have right to do.

“We have also said that going forward, they shouldn’t force any union on the workers, the management should not create any union for the workers.”

The DTCDA is a new Union formed by the management of Dangote refinery for its workers, but the NUPENG boss said that it has been agreed that it should be disbanded.

The Federal Ministry of Labour had already declared it an illegal organisation, according to report.

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