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Sacked NNPC Workers Protest, Demand Compensation From Onwuka Nzeshi in Warri Two hundred oil workers recently retrenched by the Nigerian National Petr-oleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Warri, demanding their immediate re-instatement or the payment of N1 billion as compensation for the abrupt termination of their employment. The workers, who were hitherto, employees of the Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company (WRPC), a subsidiary of the NNPC, said they were engaged as casual employees during the dark days of the military regime in Nigeria when embargo was placed on employment but the refinery needed more manpower than it had in its employ. Secretary to the Association of Disengaged WRPC Casual Workers, Comrade Joshua Oghenekevwe, disclosed that among those retrenched were men and women who had worked for ten or seventeen years and awaiting full absorption. With the return of democracy, Oghenekevwe said, this group of employees had expected that the subsequent lifting of the embargo on employment would meet the aspirations of casual but were shocked when the management of the NNPC sent them packing in a controversial re-organisation exercise that saw the workers passing through a fresh recruitment test. "Consequent upon this interview for fresh recruitment, we received a letter dated June 30 wherein we were informed of the result of the said interview and disengagement of about 95 per cent of us, contrary to the expectation that many of us will be given permanent employment. "We refer to the conversion of temporary staff in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), wherein all the temporary employees were absorbed without interview. Ours should not be an exception. As you are aware some of us have served that corporation for upward of 18 years, 17 years, 16 years, as senior or junior staff. By so doing, we have used up most of our youthful age to serve the corporation. Age is no longer on our side with regards to employment elsewhere," Oghenekevwe stated during the protest. Meanwhile, four host communities to the Warri Refinery and Petrochemicals Company have joined in the protest against the retrenchment of the oil workers, describing the issue of casualisation as a crime against the people and humanity at large. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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