WE CALL ON CHEVRON MANAGEMENT TO REGULARIZE THEIR ENGAGEMENT OF VTP5/OTP2, VTP6/OTP3 AND CALL THE AWAITING 2014 BATCH FOR OGERE CHEVRON TRAINING PROGRAMME.

The attention of Warri Development Vanguard has being drawn to the unholy activities of Chevron Nigeria Limited to her host communities,we hereby compel Chevron Nigeria that the host community's where there area of operation are should be given the adequate attention as deem necessary the longing issue of Conversion of VTP5\OTP2 trainees to permanent staffs and also absolve the 2014 awaiting list for training with immediate effect ,enough of this blame chase of putting it on the economy why you go ahead to employ people outside the oil producing area.
Meanwhile , over the years we have produce lots of graduate that are successful in several Chevron tests, exam and interviews, but Chevron is adamant on absolving them into their staff base which clearly exposes Chevron Nigeria Limited insincerity and bias towards our people .

During the time past we have to go on serious confrontation with Chevron before a paltry number of our people were employed, to put the record straight in 1998, we had to shut down Abiteye flowstation for a few of our people to be employed. In 2004, there had to be massive protest both in escravos tank farm , Abiteye and Makaraba flowstations at a separate occasions before some of our people was also considered for employment.Again in 2008, our people passed massively every test and interview up to the medical stage but where refused recruitment for training not until there was a massive coalition protest (ITSEKIRI, IJEW AND ILAJE), blocking Chevron gate in WARRI for days on September 2012 that gave birth to some of our people from the ethics nationalities to be considered for training in March 2013 (VTP5\OTP2),its shocking to note that it has become a tradition by Chevron Nigeria and the host community's to go through the dog tail fight before our people can and will be considered for employment.

More so, we wish to bring to your notice that issue of the outstanding applicants who went for Chevron training interview in April 2014 , after which 12 applicants from each of the ethnic nationalities was called to chevron operation field and the others that are yet to resume training in Ogere should be called to resume training, because the slot was allotted to the host communities as a way of promoting human capital development. if that's not done Chevron will remain in the same ordeal over and over again. We compel Chevron to look into the outstanding candidate to be engage in the next batch of trainees to be considered into the Ogere training programme.

More so , the delay in regularizing the engagement of trainees working at Chevron Escravos Gas to Liquid, EGTL plant and other Chevron locations that has been long overdue thus call for questioning. It's no longer news that the Chevron multinational has toed the line of marginalizing the ethnic nationalities, their contract has been extended for more than 5 years a contract that was supposed to be regularized after 18 months as the usual tradition by the organization shockingly at the dark hour Chevron Nigeria decided to give another contract extension.

It's funny to note that even Chevron Nigeria has refused to release the certificate of the trainees depriving them from getting job elsewhere. CNL can't continue to mortgage the future of the people from ethnic nationalities putting them in a traumatized state, after leaving a paid job with another company to work with Chevron, at the end they are treated like a piece of rubbish enough is enough.

The reluctant attitude of Chevron management has made us to come to a conclusion below.

1. Immediate conversion of VTP5\OTP2 trainees
2. Immediate conversion of VTP6\OTP3 trainees
3. Intake of 2014 awaiting batch
4. Direct all CNL sub contractors to employ host community's worker.
5. CNL should provide post graduate scholarship for host community's.
6. Reserve employment quota for us (host communities) in every CNL employment chance in accordance with the local content act.

On this note we are saying enough is enough we are shutting down Chevron Nigeria in few days time there's no amount of intimidation that will deter us this time because we have lost faith on Chevron. We have use all approach to peaceful resolution with the multinational in respect to the above query to no avail the time is now, there's no better time than now.
By Warri development vanguard.

The decisions made by these companies ought to be with integrity but reverse is the case often times. No wonder it always gets to this.

They just sign MOUs and dump dem...ders no sincerity...these trainees are being used as cheap labourers....its a pity

Wow. This is racism, modern day slavery and an integrity concern. If it is in America or even Angola this won't happen. Anyways I blame Chevron International.