BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

WORKERS in Nigeria’s Petroleum industry, have commended President Goodluck  Jonathan for signing into law the Terrorism Prevention and Money Laundering Prohibition Bills.

Under the umbrella of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, however, called on the president to tackle the rising cases of insecurity in the country especially, the spate of bomb blasts rocking parts of the country and resurgence of kidnapping.

The senior oil workers also condemned the loss of lives and property in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, caused by the intra-union crisis in the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Oyo State chapter and  the killing of two pastors in Borno by Boko Haram sect; and the kidnap of five youth corps members at Omademe, Ikwerre Local Government of Rivers State.

The association called for an overhaul of the security in the country,

lauded efforts of the Federal Government to check terrorism and money laundering , PENGASSAN’s  President, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, lamented that issues of terrorism and money laundering had been of great challenge not only to Nigeria but also the entire world.