During the period of the warning strike, the oil workers said all oil installations as well as associated operations, including oil production and exports..
Oil workers will embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike from Wednesday, the joint National Executive Committee of the and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers announced on Sunday.
The workers’ associations say the strike action was pursuant to the demand concerning their members working in federal government agencies, whose salaries were withheld since May, over alleged non-compliance with the federal government’s directive by all its agencies to enroll on the IPPIS payment platform.to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, to protest the decision by the government not to pay the workers allegedly at the instance of the finance ministry.
In the letter, dated June 19, a copy of which was sent to PREMIUM TIMES, the unions made reference to a directive from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation directing federal ministries, departments and agencies to register their staff on the IPPIS platform on or before June 18, 2020.
Besides, the unions expressed surprise that the accountant general’s office was insisting on the enrollment of the affected agencies on IPPIS despite the fact that the federal government revived the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System where the affected agencies were currently enrolled.
They called on the government to resume the talks in order for the issues to be resolved before proceeding with the decision to withhold funding to the defaulting agencies is an information Communications Technology project initiated by the Federal Government of Nigeria to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll administration for its Ministries, Departments and Agencies .
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