The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Tuesday 12th May 2020 announced the termination of its work relationship with over 100 of its contract workers as the firm seeks to rehabilitates and improve the service delivery capacities of its refineries. 
According to Punch, The workers laid off are those that are contracted to certain contractors the Petroleum company work with at the refineries. Over 100 persons who were laid off are contracted by about five contracting outfits which were asked to leave.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Kennie Obateru, said the corporation was working to revive the refineries and make them deliver at least 90 per cent of their refining capacities.
Explaining what happened at the facilities, Obateru said, “The people concerned are not our direct staff. We have contractors who supply us labour, they could be 10, 20 or more and they are just engaged for the period for which their services are needed. It could be one or two months, but usually not more than three months.
“So the contractor supplies the workers. But from what we have seen, our experience is that because a contractor is used to working with some people, each time we ask for supply, he uses some of these persons repeatedly.”
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