Oil workers demand a change of direction to save Nigeria

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) believes it is past time for Nigeria to start on a journey of rebirth and reorientation as a country to address the various difficulties it faces.

 An efficient reorientation campaign was essential to completing the process, the oil workers stated, noting that the nation was at a crossroads that had put many of its residents through challenges.

Festus Osifo, the president of PENGASSAN, made this statement in Port Harcourt during the organization’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. He stated that Nigeria has to get rid of corruption, give education top priority, engage the youth, and inculcate a feeling of unity, patriotism, and national pride in its people in order to start the process of achieving a true rebirth and meaningful reorientation.

He claimed that education was the key to arousing Nigerians’ brains, encouraging critical thinking, and cultivating a feeling of patriotism.

According to the PENGASSAN chief, this might be accomplished by promoting the country’s rich history, celebrating its diverse cultural heritage, and fortifying its national emblems.

Osifo brought up the alarm about the unfulfilled implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act’s (PIA) obligations for host communities, among other matters of national importance.

According to him, the majority of businesses have not yet begun sending the fund the three percent of operational expenses from the prior year that is required by law.

He urged all pertinent parties to ensure that the clause is fully implemented, emphasizing that it will significantly help with the numerous problems that the towns that host the oil and gas industry face.

According to Osifo, the government of Nigeria should invest in renewable energy to boost power generation capacity and address the nation’s electrical problems.

He claimed that in addition to unbundling the national grid, the government also needed to rebuild and repair infrastructure.

He asserts that the national grid needs to be divided up into smaller components dispersed around the federation’s states.

“PENGASSAN demands, for the umpteenth time, that the Federal Government take bold steps to encourage local crude oil refining. Now is the moment for us to realize our full potential and take charge of the future of energy. We need to continue restoring the current refineries,” he stated.