The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has vowed to lawfully resist attempts by international oil companies to impose COVID-19 vaccination on its members in Rivers State without constitutional provision.
The Port Harcourt Zonal Chairman of PENGASSAN, Peter Onita, said this while addressing journalists during Nigeria’s 61st independence celebrations.
Onita urged captains of industries and heads of agencies to sensitise and encourage their employees to willingly take the shots, rather than restricting their workers from their workplaces over non-vaccination.
He said, “COVID-19 has made a lot of things difficult for the workers and we want to use this medium to appeal to heads of parastatals and captains of industries that the idea of making the vaccination to be a compulsory one when there is no law to that effect is not acceptable and we will use all legitimate ways to resist it.”
