In a statement signed by Comrade Joseph Ogbebor, NUPENG Acting General Secretary, the union stated that “due to Kachikwu’s inability to address the perennial fuel scarcity which has become an epidemic and a cankerworm since his appointment as NNPC Group Managing Director, he should resign.”
The union reiterated that the man-hours lost at filling stations is becoming unbearable and that he should resign forthwith as all the solutions proffered by him have yielded no results but pains on the suffering masses.
“Kachikwu’s anti-peoples policies are too elitist and not in tandem with the campaign promises of the Buhari administration.
“The proposed plan by NNPC under Dr Ibe Kachikwu to cut contracting cycle in the oil and gas sector which will impact negatively on the workers in the sector from the current two to four years to six months will further worsen the unemployment situation in the country,” it said.
NUPENG added that the planned privatisation of the nation’s assets vis-à-vis, the refineries, depots, jetties through the backdoor to cronnies will further compound the challenges facing the sector.
“This is borne out of the total failure of the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, (PHCN) which brought us total darkness and massive loss of jobs.
The policies enunciated by Dr Kachikwu are obnoxious, alien, unworkable and full of semantics and have failed from the on-set, hence the nation’s citizens have continued to suffer with redundancies been declared on a daily basis in the oil and gas sector since he assumed office,” it said.
The union added that the inconsistencies in the policies and promises never kept have put us in this quagmire.
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