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NUPENG Threathens Nationwide Strike, Accuses Security Agents Of High-handedness 

by Bode Gbadebo
2 years ago
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The relief being experienced by Nigerians at petrol retail outlets across the country over availability of the petroleum products, may be shortlived as the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (PTD-NUPENG) has threatened strike action over what they described as illegal activities and high-handedness of security agents, particulalrly the Military Task Force operating in the Port Harcourt zone of the Union in Rivers State.

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National Chairman of the PTD-NUPENG, Comrade Lucky Osesua, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that men of the Military Task Force operating in Port Harcourt burnt two trucks conveying HPFO, otherwise known as Black Oil on Tuesday night, saying the truck drivers were falsely accused of transporting crude oil.

 

According to the PTD-NUPENG National Chairman, the trucks, which lifted the black oil at a modular refinery, Walter Smith Refinery and Petrochemical Ibigwe in Imo State, on Monday and Tuesday, were intercepted between Ahoada and Elele in Rivers State.

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Comrade Osesua, who gave the number plates of the trucks as EFR 770 XA and AFZ 351 ZY, further disclosed that they were conveying 40,000 liters each of the Black Oil to Bob & Sea Depot Koko in Delta State.

 

He told journalists that the drivers of the two trucks were polite in their responses and presented all the necessary documents to officers of the military, who allegedly ignored the documents, rebuffed appeals and burnt the trucks.

 

The PTD-NUPENG national chairman, who presented the documents to journalists, added: “The drivers presented WayBills, NUPENG receipts, and quality control documents. But the military men still insisted that they carried crude oil. They drove the two trucks away and burnt them between Ahoada and Elele in Rivers State, on Tuesday night.

 

“Without investigation, without reaching out to the refinery, where the drivers mentioned that they lifted the Black Oil, the soldiers burnt down the trucks, in less than five hours.”

 

The PTD-NUPENG National Chairman, who also presented to journalists documents signed by Charles Okon, Refinery Manager of Walter Smith Refinery and Petrochemical, where the products were loaded, said the Union has taken a decision to stop lifting products at its Port Harcourt zone.

 

He said same decision to stop loading nationwide would be taken by Monday except damages incurred as a result of the high-handedness of the Military Task Force were addressed.

 

“Enough is enough about the high-handedness of our security agents. They should stop demonising our Union and persecuting our men who are doing their normal business. We expect that in this modern world, trained security agents should be able to identify black oil as against crude oil. We should not be at the receiving end of their ignorance,” he said.

 

Comrade Osesua further hinted that in a desperate move to clean up their actions, the soldiers mobilised metal scraps collectors to the site of the burnt trucks in order to cover their tracks.


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