Some branches of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria have commenced a three-day warning strike to protest the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Management System.
Employees of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, Department of Petroleum Resource, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and Petroleum Training Institute, on Wednesday gathered at the PPPRA head office in Abuja, chanting solidarity songs.
Kelechi Ugwulor, National Industrial Officer, PENGGASSAN, said about the strike, “We are concerned with the ways our members in some government agencies are being treated with respect to IPPIS. In September, our members in NNRA had huge sums of money deducted from their salaries, and we have decided that enough is enough.
“We are not averse to instruments of transparency in this country. Any system that offers accountability to the governance of Nigeria we are in for it, but do not do injustice to our members.”
Also, Efreke Udeme, NNRA branch Chairman, said “bastardisation” of staff’s salaries and non-release of statutory allocation of some of the agencies were responsible for the action, calling on relevant government officials to address the issues as a matter of priority.
“Our grievances include bastardisation of our salaries by IPPIS and non release of personnel cost for PPPRA and PTI for August, 2020. Salaries arrears from March 2015 to Dec. 2016 are also outstanding in NNRA,” Udeme said.
