President Bola Tinubu has announced date the Port Harcourt Refinery will commence operations.
Tinubu, during Wednesday night’s meeting with labour leaders, assured of the refinery commencing full operations in December 2023.
Revealing the pronouncement, the labour unions noted that they agreed to several promises made by the president and have chosen to return to the negotiations table.
In a statement by the national presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero and Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, the union leaders hailed Nigerians for supporting the nationwide protest.
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It read;
“It is pertinent to inform Nigerians that the extent of the success of the protest is underlined by the request of the President of the federal republic of Nigeria; Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu to meet with the leadership of the NLC and TUC in a closed-door session.
“The engagement was fruitful that immense mileage was obtained with regards to the issues that bogged down the work of the Presidential Committee on Subsidy removal and necessitated the protest viz; He committed to an immediate restructuring of the framework for engagement in line with the input of the Labour leaders.
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“He let out a certainty that the Port Harcourt Refinery will commence production by December this year. He pledged to ensure that Agreement is reached on the Wage Award for Nigerian workers immediately.
“He promised to unveil a workable roadmap to the CNG alternative next week. On the strength of the president’s pledge and commitment, we have decided to return to a new and reinvigorated dialogue process to allow for full implementation.
“Once again, we thank Nigerians while we wait for the Government to fulfill its own part of the understanding as agreed with His Excellency; the President.”
