Following the announcement by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) on the operational status of the Port Harcourt Refinery, The Presidents of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, respectively, have confirmed that Port Harcourt Refinery is working.
The two organized labour union presidents stated this on Monday after visiting the refinery’s facility.
Ajaero and Osifo both led a delegation of other labour union leaders and conducted an inspection of the rehabilitated facility, and affirmed its functionality and output standards.
Ajaero, who spoke to newsmen at the facility after the inspection, said the refinery is now working, and the inspection was in line with the agreement the organized labour had with the federal government.
“It is in continuation of the agreement we signed with the government when there was an increase in the pump price of petroleum product.
“Part of the agreement was that this station must work and we have made efforts to emphasize it repeatedly. And now that it is working it is our duty to come here and confirm that it is working. So it is an extension of an earlier agreement,” Ajaero said.
On his part, TUC President, Osifo, said the organized labour was satisfied with the refinery’s operation.
“At the various processing units, we were shown the heat exchangers, we were shown the turbine and how all these processes tie in into the production of the petroleum product as at today. To a very large extent, we are very satisfied. Me and my team, we are satisfied with what we have seen with the level of work and level of detail that went into it,” Osifo stated.
