The
National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG has slammed oil and gas
major, Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, saying the company contradicted
itself in attempt to justify its alleged recruitment of 50 Plant
Operators.
In a
statement signed by President of NAIG, Collins Edema and Dede Tsuwa on
behalf of the association’s publicity committee, the Itsekiri graduates’
body asserted that Chevron’s claim that its employment is based on
merit with special attention and effort to sponsor eligible trainees for
the operations and maintenance vocational training profession is aimed
at developing the skills/capacities of the trainees for better
competitiveness “contradicts her (CNL) local community content strategy
guidelines, which states in LCC 3.1.2 that the company “aims to engage
and will require its contractors and vendors to engage skilled manpower
from local communities to support the execution of all projects if and
when available in the communities subject to technical competence”.
While
stating that Chevron’s response to her earlier stance on the
recruitment of the Plant Operators “is not only shameful, but a dent on
the public image of Chevron”, NAIG opined that the company’s
spokesperson “deliberately avoided the issue of 50 Operators employed by
Chevron without the knowledge of the host communities to even
participate in the recruitment process”.
The
statement queried Chevron’s claim of being an equal opportunities’
employer “when opportunities are not given to the Itsekiris in
departments such as legal, operations, human resources, administrative
and engineering”.
NAIG
demanded that Chevron “should immediately employ the percentage accrued
to the Itsekiri of the 50 Operators secretly employed and convert both
the VTP5/0TP2 and VTP6 trainees or issue to them their OPITO
certificates with proper compensation for time wasted or else we will
embark on massive action that may lead to the shutting down of all
Chevron operations in Itsekiri land”.
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