Nigeria: Strike - Pengassan Orders Shutdown of Export Terminals

22 June 2007

Lagos — THE Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has directed its members in export terminals and production platforms to shut down operations from today in continuation of the strike to protest the last increase in fuel prices and sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries.

Labour said all production platforms and export terminals in the Escravos flow stations operated by Chevron were shut down yesterday. It also alleged plan by the Federal Government to procure "a black market injunction" to abort the on-going strike, and asked the judiciary not to allow itself to be used against the popular will of the Nigerian people.

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