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We Did Not Dismiss Contract Workers, NNPC

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We Did Not Dismiss Contract Workers, NNPC

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May 14, 2020

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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained that contrary to media reports, it did not dismiss or sack any direct 100 contract workers.

The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Kennie Obateru, however said that the corporation had halted the services of about five of its contractors working in the nation’s refineries for a period of time to give room for the on going rehabilitation work of the refineries to enhance its full capacity operations.

Obateru said, “The people concerned are not our direct staff. We have contractors who supply us labour, they could be 10, 20 or more and they are just engaged for the period for which their services are needed. It could be one or two months, but usually not more than three months.

“So the contractor supplies the workers. But from what we have seen, our experience is that because a contractor is used to working with some people, each time we ask for supply, he uses some of these persons repeatedly.”

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