The controversy over the reorganisation in the Shell Petroleum Development Company has continued to linger as the National Assembly has summoned the management of the Dutch oil multinational over the exercise.
Investigation by our correspondent showed that the SPDC management would appear before the House of Representatives on Monday (today) and the Senate on Tuesday (tomorrow), to throw light on the exercise.
The management of the oil firm disclosed this at an interactive session with memebers of staff on Friday. The session took place simultaneously in Lagos, Warri and Port Harcourt.
Our correspondent gathered that the the company�s Vice� President, Production, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu, briefed the workers at the Lagos office of the company, while his Infrastructure Department�s counterpart, Mr. Osagie Okunbor, was at the head of the group that handled the same assignment in Port Harcourt.
The Vice- President of the company in charge of Human Resources, Mr. Erik Soblom, led another team to the headquarters of the western operation of the oil firm in Warri.
The briefing was meant to furnish the workers with the update on the reorganisation, which was suspended by the management on the order of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
It was learnt that the National Assembly wrote the management of the oil firm last week and asked that its members be briefed on the controversial exercise on Monday and Tuesday.
A reliable source said in Warri on Sunday that the company�s Country Chairman, Mr. Basil Omiyi, would lead the team to the meeting with the legislators.
The source who was present at the briefing in Warri said, �The leadership team of Shell briefed the staff in Lagos, Warri and Port Harcourt on the update on the reorganisation on Friday.
�The only new thing that the workers were told was that the National Assembly has summoned the company.
�The Vice- President, Human Resources and the Vice- President, Technical, who briefed the staff in Warri said the management would go to the National Assembly this week and that it(management) was still discussing with the Federal Government through the NNPC on the matter.
�The Country Chairman of Shell Nigeria, Mr. (Basil) Omiyi, is expected to lead the team because it is unlikely that an expatriate like Ann Pickard will like to undertake this kind of assignment.�
The security situation in the Niger Delta, which culminated in unprecedented production cuts and significant revenue losses, compelled the management to embark on belt � tightening measures described as �Recovery Actions.�