Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has dismissed media reports suggesting that it sacked about 500 workers a few days after it changed its name.
NNPC limited described the report as the handiwork of mischief makers.
According to a report filed by The Daily Sun, Garba Deen Muhammad, who is the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Department of NNPC, said the report was misleading, stressing that the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) insulates workers from the arbitrary sacking and salary cuts in the implementation of the Act.
He further explained that the NNPC management had proposed early retirement for workers due to exit between now and 2024 and gave them what was due to them.
He added that such an action is taken to energise the system via the injection of new hands and proper placement and must not be mischievously misconstrued to mean anyone was sacked, as nothing of such happened.
“We didn’t sack anyone. Even the PIA doesn’t allow that. Somebody sat somewhere and wrote what he felt like. If it were true, by now the labour unions would have threatened fire and brimstone. Everywhere would be tensed. For the atmosphere to be calm simply means the sack report is not true.
“It should be disregarded,” he said.
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