Dangote Refinery Commends Tinubu, Safety Chiefs, Ministers for Averting PENGASSAN Disruption

…Reaffirms Dedication to Nigeria’s Progress, Employees’ Welfare

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has expressed profound appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his well timed intervention in averting what it described as “the disruptive actions of PENGASSAN” in opposition to the corporate.

The corporate in a press release mentioned the President’s management, by means of his ministers and senior authorities officers, ensured the restoration of order and stability to the vitality sector at a important second.

“Dangote Refinery is grateful to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, HE Bola Tinubu, GCFR for his intervention, by means of his Ministers and senior officers, which resulted within the abatement of the disruptive actions of PENGASSAN in opposition to the Refinery,” the assertion learn.

Based on the corporate, among the many key authorities officers who labored “tirelessly” to revive normalcy had been Nigeria’s Safety Chiefs, led by the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; the Director Normal of the Division of State Companies (DSS), Mr. Adeola Toyin Ajayi; and the Director Normal of the Nationwide Intelligence Company (NIA), Mr. Mohammed Mohammed.

The corporate additionally counseled the efforts of different senior authorities officers who labored “untiringly and determinedly into the wee hours of a number of nights to avert the declared disruption of Nigeria’s vitality sector by anarchists and brokers of darkness.” These, it mentioned, included the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Mohammed Dingyadi; the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Financial system, Mr. Wale Edun; the Honourable Minister of Finances and Financial Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu; and the Honourable Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.

“We stay very grateful to those officers for his or her patriotism and nationwide service,” it added.

Dangote Refinery prolonged heartfelt gratitude to Nigerians for his or her overwhelming public help in the course of the disaster.

“To Nigerians of all walks of life, we owe you greater than a debt of gratitude. Your help for our righteous trigger was each humbling and overwhelming. We heard your supportive voices and phrases of encouragement actually in all the road corners and media channels of Nigeria and had been energized and strengthened thereby. You gave us hope and strengthened our perception within the Nigerian nation and folks because the spine of our enterprise. Be assured that we might proceed to work for and in your curiosity and persist in at all times defending that curiosity in opposition to hire seekers, financial saboteurs and financial squatters,” the corporate acknowledged.

The Refinery additionally lauded its workforce for his or her loyalty and dedication in the course of the industrial pressure.

“To our loyal employees, who ensured that our operations weren’t disrupted even for a second, we thank and admire you. The energy of Dangote Group lies in our folks and their unalloyed dedication and allegiance to our trigger, mission and imaginative and prescient. You proved your allegiance to our trigger these a number of days even within the face of the provocative and inciting feedback of and directives from detractors and naysayers who don’t want us and certainly Nigeria nicely. Be assured that you’re treasured and can proceed to be handsomely rewarded and remunerated however the hypocritical directives and pronouncements of the enemies of Nigeria’s progress and derailers of our economic system”.

Reaffirming its place as one in every of Nigeria’s foremost employers, the refinery famous that the Dangote Group is a mannequin personal sector participant dedicated to truthful employment practices and nationwide financial improvement.

“Maybe, we should always point out, at this level that, the Dangote Group, with due modesty, is acknowledged as one in every of Nigeria’s mannequin employers of labour and the biggest personal sector employer within the nation in addition to the biggest contributor to Nigeria’s tax revenues. Our compensation framework is benchmarked in opposition to worldwide requirements and designed not solely to reward efficiency but in addition to guard worker welfare, uphold dignity in labour and supply a protected and enabling office for our folks. Via steady coaching, mentorship {and professional} improvement, we create seen pathways for progress thereby empowering our staff to advance into management roles and to construct long-term and fulfilling careers”.

Dangote Refinery additionally counseled the Nigerian judiciary for upholding justice and defending the rule of regulation within the face of provocation.

“One establishment that we revere and should loudly acknowledge is the Nigerian judiciary. They stood up for the reality and proved themselves because the bastion of hope for all of us. It’s unlucky that the oligarchs publicly displayed their rascality and lawlessness by refusing to simply accept service of legitimate courtroom orders that kind to restrain their damaging actions. Regardless, the truth that the judiciary got here to society’s rescue at our important second of want, however the intimidation of the hypocritical and sabotaging oligarchs, stands the judicial establishment out as a simply arbiter,” the corporate famous.

The Refinery reiterated its unwavering dedication to nationwide service and industrial progress.

“Lastly, and to all our different stakeholders, huge and small, we thanks and can proceed to at all times rely in your help. We might not relent in serving the Nigerian nation faithfully and diligently by means of the uninterrupted manufacturing of our petroleum merchandise. Our dedication to the Nigerian nation and our pact with its folks stay undiluted, undiminished and unalterable however the distractions from our detractors and the saboteurs in our midst,” it