The National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG has tackled Oil and Gas Major, Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, saying the current leadership crisis in Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC should not be an excuse for Chevron to deny Itsekiri Nation of its “80% employment slots, because we produce over 80% of CNL Oil output in Nigeria”.
NAIG in a statement made available to newsmen in Warri on Monday July 18, declared that the warning became necessary following reports that Chevron was recruiting some personnel to work in an alleged Turn-Around Maintenance, TAM in the Escravos Gas to Liquid, EGTL Project in Escravos, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State.
Comrade Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema
The statement which was signed by NAIG President, Comrade Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema on behalf of the association, noted that the Itsekiri graduates’ body was “not convinced with explanation by a source in Chevron that the purported ongoing recruitment in EGTL would be done from Chevron data base, on the premise that persons to be engaged are those who worked in EGTL because of the urgency of the job”.
While stressing that they would not be swayed by the argument that the recruitment was occasioned by “the need to fix a part of the EGTL plant that has technical issues, requiring urgent attention and that the actual Turn- Around Maintenance of EGTL will take place in the first quarter of 2017”, NAIG tasked the management of Chevron to deal directly with the Palace of the Olu of Warri on issues that concerns employment and contracts, pending when IRDC leadership crisis would be resolved, “because all lands in Warri Kingdom is vested under the authority of the Olu of Warri”.
NAIG disclosed that it would soon commence a process for Chevron to relocate its headquarters from Lekki, Lagos to Warri in Delta State which is in the company’s area of operation, “as exemplified by ExxonMobil, LNG and other IOCs”. They warned that failure to comply would force the association to stage mass protest to the National Assembly as well as petition Chevron Home Office in the United States.
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