The Rivers State Government has reinstated Oil and gas sector in its essential service providers list.
It also informed the security agencies and the COVID-19 enforcement Taskforce of the development in line with the policies of regularly revising the essential duty sector.
This was disclosed by the state’s commissioner for Energy and Natural Resources, Peter Medee.
Medee in a statement said members of the following unions and associations are considered accordingly: Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and its branches, Products Retail Outlets Owners Association (PETROAN), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Workers (NNPC), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria(IPMAN), Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria ( MOMAN), and the Depot and Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria(DAPMAN).
The statement said members of the aforementioned Organizations who are essential duty are to be allowed access to enable them to perform their services during the period of the lockdown.
The statement also advised members of the Organization that abuse of the privileges given would not be tolerated by the government, as such would not hesitate to withdraw such privileges in the face of abuses and reminded the organizations that waivers are as a result of the important state Governor Nyesom Wike attached to the activities of oil and gas sectors.
Noting that such gesture would put an end to all forms of panic buying and storage of petroleum and gas products in the home by end-users of the product in Rivers state, especially in view of the dangers associates with the misuse of the product.
