Refineries' Sale may wait till after 2015 Polls

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Benjamin Dikki
DG, BPE

A COMBINATION of labour and political issues may make the nation’s refineries not to be privatised until  after the general elections of 2015, according to  an investigation by The Guardian.

   The Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) says labour has confirmed that it wants the refineries privatised, but with shares properly allocated to workers, a condition the government has accepted.

  The Director General of the BPE, Mr. Benjamin Dikki told The Guardian, however, that the same labour had failed to put its house in order, necessitating divergent positions from some of its members across the nation.