KARACHI, April 25: The management of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) on Friday refuted what it called the “sustained campaign of disinformation by vested interests” and said it had “fully implemented” the understanding reached at Dera Bugti, as well as agreement concluded with the company’s CBA.

PPL denied that it was not honouring its commitment towards employment of locals.

The current scenario at Sui does not reflect any lack of implementation/action on the part of PPL-Sui Field management as all accords arrived at have been executed in letter and spirit, PPL said.

It involves a section of local population at Sui, which is acting for reasons that are “unwarranted and unfair,” a PPL press release said.

The company, on its part, would continue to follow policies of fairplay and justice, in accordance with laws of the land. PPL has track record of honouring all its commitments.

The Sui Purification Plant was recently acquired from the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited by PPL, and all plant employees still belong to the SSGCL and seconded to the PPL. As SSGCL had not employed sons of retired/deceased workers of the plant in the past, they can now only be employed by the PPL after the SSGCL union signs MoU which formalizes certain conditions that have been agreed with them.

This will pave way for the PPL to employ sons of former SSGCL employees as per need to ease the current situation.—PPI