Some yet-t0-be-identified gunmen suspected to be connected with the Biafra Nation League have allegedly abducted no fewer than three oil workers in the Bakassi Peninsula.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that the workers were reportedly on their way to work when the incident happened late Saturday.
According to credible sources, the gunmen also whisked away the boat conveying the workers along with their equipment.
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The oil firm operates in Atabong area in the Bakassi Peninsula and the victims’ whereabouts remained unknown as of the time of this report.
When contacted, the state Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, could not confirm the attack as at the time of filing this report.
In another report, operational activities were, yesterday, grounded at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, Delta State, as hundreds of casual workers staged a peaceful protest inside the company against the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
Their demands included, among others, conversion from casual to permanent staff, salary increase, payment of all outstanding allowances, as well as better working conditions and welfare.
Some of the protesting workers, who claimed to have served the company for upwards of 28 years, were requesting payoffs since, according to them, the NNPC management had “refused” to yield to their demand for regularisation over the years.
Amidst solidarity songs, the peaceful protesters carried leaves and placards with inscriptions such as ’15, 25, 27 years of slavery must stop’; ‘Increase our salary’; ‘No conversion, no quick fix’; ‘NNPC stop technical lies,’ ‘WRPC, KRPC, PRPC must work’, among others.
The 336 casual staff called on the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, to urgently address their matter, warning that there would be no resumption of work until their demands were met.