FG’ll retain 1,500 staff of defunct PPPRA,DPR, PEF -Sylva
The Federal Government is to retain about 1,500 employees of the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and Petroleum Equalization Fund.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said that no staff of the scrapped agencies would be sacked.
He disclosed this during meetings with employees of the affected organizations in Abuja.
Sylva, who announced that he had stepped down as the Chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, supervised the handing over ceremonies at the agencies.
Although, he did not give the exact number of workers in the agencies, the daily payment data published on the portal in 2020 had put the number of staff at the defunct DPR at 610.
Senior officials of the defunct PPPRA stated that the staff strength of the agency was about 400, as some of the workers also expressed fears of being fired following the scrapping of the agency. Also, it was learnt that the defunct PEF’s workforce was in the region of 400 workers.
Sylva had also inaugurated the boards of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, the successor agencies of the scrapped DPR, PPPRA and PEF.
In a bid to calm the concerns and fears of workers of the defunct organizations, Sylva went to the agencies and assured them that the Federal Government had no plan to fire workers.
