Gatsu Gatensho

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@LegacySiu Mikel Oil Zebra

Mikel Oyarzabal

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@JenomSenju Nigerian lecturer wey dey feel like gods. Na offerings them dey accept, anything short of that na insult to the gods...

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@CFC_Whizz Only Mikel Obi and Riyad Mahrez

Salah and Drogba have no Afcon
Mane has no EPL

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@Brainboksh D

[PENGASSAN Dangote Refinery Branch @DPRP_PENGASSAN]

Our Inalienable right to unionise is recognised globally.

The #Dangote800 thanks IndustriALL for lending their support to our cause.

#BuiltNotSabotaged

[BIG JOE OF LAGOS✌️🇳🇬®️ @JosephOnuorah]

TRUCE:

For all those Nigerians who endorsed and supported the sacking of 800+ compatriots who committed no offense.

You deserve to be pitied.

I only have stephenic prayers for you:

May God forgive you, for you knew not what you were doing nor the evil you supported.

[Engr. Dankz @Aldankz0]

@FredBless38919 @SageAsghar @channelstv @DPengassan25573 @IU_Wakili @JosephOnuorah @NigeriaStories @Realoilsheikh @SaharaReporters People saying PENGASSAN should not hold Dangote ransom, does that mean 800+ workers doesn't have rights and are dispensable after producing the fuel you're enjoying today. And its okay for Dangote group to dispose them for expatriates after the unfair treatment they had endured.

[Engr. Dankz @Aldankz0]

A Thread: General perspective.

People feel the moment fuel flows they don't care what happens and they feel for that reason Dangote is too big to fail and I understand why most would think that.

But I want everyone to think deeply about it
@IU_Wakilii @Comrade_GDP @SirJarus

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This fight is not about PENGASSAN but for the Nigerian workers.
The Nigerian Engineers praised by the Dangote group 2 weeks ago as being better than Indian expatriates are now sacked labelled as saboteurs and then Recruiting previously disqualified candidates and more expatriates

[𝐃𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚 @Realoilsheikh]

Amazing How Nigerians Become Heroes in Secret and Villains in Public

Dear @DangoteGroup,

Your 4-page publication branding Nigerian engineers and PENGASSAN as “lawless” and “terrorists” reads less like a balanced account and more like an attempt to shape perception.

But perhaps it is more useful to view this not as a battle between DPRP and PENGASSAN, but as a reminder of something simpler, that unions exist to protect workers, especially when they feel abandoned. If these young engineers had been treated with the same dignity often extended to expatriates, maybe none of this drama would have surfaced.

Consider the irony. On the one hand, official statements accuse Nigerians of sabotage. On the other hand, HR quietly recalls previously disqualified applicants for medicals and onboarding. If all was truly under control, why scramble for the very people already deemed unfit? Maybe because the truth is that the refinery cannot run without these Nigerians, and by law, it shouldn't.

Just hours ago, a LinkedIn post by an Indian recruiter openly advertised refinery roles—Panel Operators, Shift In-Charge, CDU, HGU, RFCC, and more. Shortly after, another post appeared by Mukesh Sharma, listed as a Quality Control Officer at Dangote Refinery, sharing similar openings. If Nigerians were truly saboteurs and already replaced, why the sudden global search for operators? It suggests that refineries run not on glossy statements, but on capable hands, capable Boys and girls whom were praised to be the best by your CEO some days ago, and today were just shown the door.

We must remember the sacrifices of those dismissed. These were the people who pre-commissioned, commissioned, started up, and stabilized the plant. They worked six days on and one day off, sometimes stretching into 24-hour shifts during shutdowns. They purchased PPEs with their own money, endured the loss of lunch and rest facilities, and carried on even when they had no health insurance nor life insurances, all to make sure the refinery came alive. And in return, they were branded as saboteurs. Heroes in reality, villains in a press release kind of thing?

Even Annex Two of your own publication betrays the narrative. PENGASSAN’s statement that the Port Harcourt refinery lacked a reformer unit for direct PMS production was not mischief, it was a technical fact. The very quotes you highlighted confirmed it. Yet somehow, fact was recast as “terror tactics.” Nigerians are not blind to the contradiction; when workers state facts, it is branded mischief, but when management makes sweeping changes, it is called “in the interest of the refinery.”

The irony deepens. In your official publications, Nigerian engineers are painted as the problem. Yet in HR inboxes they suddenly become the solution. Below is the invitation a number of these Nigerians received just when this whole drama started. One day accused of sabotage, the next day, fresh ones quietly recalled to fill critical roles. Perhaps the refinery is learning, the hard way, that concrete and steel don’t refine fuel. People do. And it was these same Nigerian engineers that turned blueprints into reality.

Protecting investment should never mean discarding those who give it life. Credibility will come not from lengthy publications but from transparency; audited workforce composition, ratios of Nigerians to foreigners, HSE compliance records, welfare audits. Without these, it becomes difficult to justify why engineers who sacrificed so much were branded as “terrorists.”

Thank you.

[SeunOkin Channels tv @seunokin]

"The workers unionised in accordance to the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Monday and we sent a letter to them at Dangote Refineries informing them of the decision and asking the organization to remit their dues from source, on Tuesday, the staff were required to identify themselves and confirm if they subscribed to PENGASSAN and by Wednesday a mass Sack letter was sent out to all Nigerian staff and bringing in Indians to do the work, this is not how it's done, if there is really anyone sabotaging the Nigerian Economy, it is Dangote who is trying to victimise workers for making a choice."

Festus Osifo,
President PENGASSAN

#seunokinbaloye #sundaypolitics #ChannelsTV

[Engr. Dankz @Aldankz0]

This is someone who is not a Nigerian explicitly saying he knows how to manage his was around the laws of our nation and saying he won't allow trade unions which is a legal right of the Nigerian workers...

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@SaharaReporters @Aldankz0 @IU_Wakilii

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

PENGASSAN, Dangote, And Perils Of Unchecked Capitalism In Nigeria’s Oil Sector: Why Protecting Unionism Matters, By Olatunde Olayinka Damilola | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/awSiD733Sy

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@Aldankz0 @IU_Wakilii
From a colleague that left the refinery for PTDF MSc scholarship.

[Souljah @jeffphilips1]

If true, Dangote cannot win this. They'll make life difficult for his refinery by putting pressure from the oil production side, which will touch the FG to make unfavourable harsh decisions. The right of association is a universal right guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution and the labour law. No matter how ignoble unions' motives are, the law remains the law and Dangote refinery is not above it.

[Souljah @jeffphilips1]

For those challenging this tweet, I was a PENGASSAN branch executive until 3 months ago. I was equally a NUPENG branch chairman years ago, and I can categorically tell you that there's no way I'll be on the side of Nigerian capitalists against Nigerian workers. Without the unions, you're all just slaves to these people and the expatriates they hire from abroad.

Their foreign counterparts in the industry were worse until unions forced them to respect the Nigerian workforce and began to pay globally competitive and relative compensation.

Even the banks some of you are using as examples, you can see what they're doing to Nigerians they're overworking with slave contracts whilst they're declaring hundreds of billions of profits all because there are no unions to help them.

Yes, we need Dangote, but he must treat his workers with the required dignity and pay them competitive wages with good conditions of service.

[Blessing HOOD @FredBless38919]

🚨 Enough of the lies! @DangoteGroup’s post is PROPAGANDA — a desperate attempt to twist the truth and beg for public sympathy while crushing Nigerian workers.

Let the world know:
900+ Nigerian Engineers were sacked for UNIONIZING — their constitutional right.