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PENGASSAN to shutdown
oil production Midnight Jan 14 ..As Jonathan meets Labour
Newsdiaryonline
Posted
Thur Jan 12,2012
Omar,NLC president
The
senior oil workers’ union, PENGASSAN has fixed
Saturday , January 14 as
the date it would shut down oil and gas production in Nigeria if
government fails to yield to popular demand over its removal of
fuel subsidy.“W e are hereby notifying the Federal Government
of Nigeria and indeed
all Nigerians
that PENGASSAN
shall be forced
to go ahead
and apply the bitter option of ordering the systematic shutting
down of oil and Gas production
with effect from
the midnight of Saturday January 14,2012(00.00 hour of
Sunday January 15,2012) if the federal Government
fails to yield to the popular agitation of Nigerians on
her unacceptable approach to Fuel Subsidy Removal” PENGASSAN
said in a statement today.
The union’s
specific
threat to shut down
production came ahead of
a scheduled meeting this evening
in the presidential villa Abuja between President
Goodluck Jonathan
and Labour leaders.This meeting may decide whether the
government will finally cave in or not.Labour has insisted that
the FG must revert to N65 per litre.It even emerged today
that Labour
conceded to agree on
price adjustment but the
government remained adamant yesterday
at a meeting, thus
making the strike go into its 4th day.
The meeting with the president scheduled
for 5.00PM this evening comes on the heels of another
this afternoon in Abuja
with Anyim Pius Anyim, the tough talking SGF.
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