A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Dr. Farah Dagogo, has flayed ExxonMobil for sacking 495 employees in the Niger Delta region.
Dagogo queried the reasons behind the “hasty mass retrenchment” of workers by the oil firm despite the passage of the Nigerian Emergency Economic Stimulus Bill into law by the House of Representatives to cushion the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lawmaker in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Lawal, described the timing of the retrenchment as curious saying it occurred when the global oil prices maintained steady increase. He said: “I am yet to comprehend how ExxonMobil intend to justify this unholy and hasty retrenchment of over 495 of its staff in the Niger Delta states of Rivers and Akwa Ibom. The people of my constituency in Bonny constitute a large fraction of those regrettably thrown into the job market.
“It will also protect the employment status of Nigerians who might otherwise become unemployed as a consequence of management decision to retrench personnel in response to the prevailing economic realities.
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