The Senate, on Thursday, threatened to invoke sanctions against managing directors of International Oil Companies (IOCs) in Nigeria for not honouring its invitation to an investigative hearing on diving operations in the oil and gas industry.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Teslim Folarin (APC, Oyo), issued the threat at an investigative hearing organised by the Committee on challenges experienced by diving operators in the sector.
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At the hearing, none of the Ministers of Labour and Managing Directors of IOCs were in attendance for the hearing.
However, representatives of the various managing directors of IOCs and the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour Employment and Productivity were available to represent their principals.
“What is surprising is that we invited the managing directors and that is the normal practice here in the National Assembly.
“We will invite them again and if they don’t come, we will have to invoke our sanctions,” he said.
The MDs fingered include those of ExxonMobil, Total Chevron, among others.
