NUPENG and PENGASSAN Called Off Strike After Meeting OAGF

Senior oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas(NUPENG) have called off their strike.

This was disclosed on Tuesday by Fortune Obi, the National Public Relations Officer, PENGASSAN, who is also the State Secretary for Rivers state Trade Union Congress.

Obi said “Strike suspended as Federal Government agrees to pay the owed salaries while the IPPS (Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System) is sorted out in the future.”

It would be recalled that on Thursday 13, August 2020, PENGASSAN said its members would withdraw their services nationwide effective from Monday 17 August, 2020, because the federal government had failed to pay their salaries for the past three months, also to kick against government decision to include its members in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

On Monday, the very day the Unions commenced their strike, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation held an impromptu meeting with the leadership of the unions (PENGASSAN/NUPENG) to address some of their concerns.

It was agreed at the meeting, that the three months salary owed to the oil workers will be paid through the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System platform.

It was also decided at the meeting that another date would be fixed for all stakeholders to meet and discuss the enrollment of oil workers on the IPPIS platform.