Nigeria's oil workers' union, NUPENG, alleges the implementation of local content laws has become a haven for corruption and made portfolio-carrying Nigerian businessmen millionaires.
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has said the implementation of local content law, which the unions in the industry fought vigorously for in the interest of young graduates, technicians and school leavers, has been turned into a cesspit of corruption.
To address the local contents challenge, the workers called on the Tinubu-led administration to declare a state of emergency in the oil and gas sector, to properly situate employment in the industry. According to him, there is increasing degeneration, indecency and precariousness of employment and working conditions in the industry, which can be attributed to one of the causes of the increasing frustrations, crime, violence and restiveness among the youths, who are continuously feeling alienated in their fatherland.
“No Nigerian feels safe anymore and these unfortunate situations have in so many ways accentuated the level of poverty, unemployment, rising food cost and brain drain syndrome among every age bracket. The daily gory tales of kidnapping for ransoms, ritual killing, religious killings, communal clashes/killings and herders/farmers’ killings are so scary and discourage farmers from farms and indigenous and foreign investors/businesses from investing in the country creating jobs.
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