The committee is to also to investigate forensically the recent recruitment of graduate trainees by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company with a view to determining how many persons were engaged from the various host communities.
Adopting a motion initiated by Thomas Eveyitomi at the plenary presided over by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, the lower legislative chamber mandated its Committee on Petroleum to probe the issue.
Eveyitomi, while moving the motion, remarked that the WRPC had gone ahead to sack over 300 casual employees in defiance to the order of the Federal Government stating no public agency or private establishment should disengage workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. He regretted that NNPC went ahead to recruit 1,050 graduate trainees in disobedience to the resolution of the green chamber.
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