Admin l Wednesday, January 11, 2017
LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria may be preparing for a major fuel crisis, following the decision of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG to embark on nationwide strike.
The strike, according to NUPENG is to protest job losses and non-payment of salaries in the oil and gas sector.
We gathered that most of those affected were contract workers who are yet to be paid.
“Filling stations, petrol tankers and all NUPENG members are involved,” Cogent Ojobo, NUPENG’s Warri zonal chairman, told Vanguard and that union officials will today hold a meeting with Minister of Labour on the issue.
He said the strike would last for three days and that about 10,000 workers are involved.
“If the issues at stake are resolved and a communique signed, the strike would be called off,” he said and that seven oil flow stations have been shut down in Oleh, Delta State.
“Seven flow stations belonging to NPDC were shut by the workers and they are still shut now,” Ojobo said.
