Except the federal government intervenes, another round of petrol scarcity is looming in the country as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Except the federal government intervenes, another round of petrol scarcity is looming in the country as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), says there is no going back on its planned warning strike scheduled to commence on January 11. Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Zonal Chairman of the union revealed in Lagos on Monday, that the union had mobilised its members for the strike. He said that the union was determined to forge ahead with the planned warning strike, which would take place from January 11 to January 13.
“The warning strike notice had been given since the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting that was held in Port Harcourt in December and we picked the second week of January which commences from January 8th. All zones including Lagos have mobilised to ensure the success of the strike as directed by NEC body of NUPENG.
“We are having another NEC meeting in Abuja on January 10, to appraise the preparation for the planned strike and meet with government officials. It has been the practice of the Nigerian government to wait until the ultimatum day before they start to run from one place to the other to find solutions to it.
If this warning strike is not properly handled as we have mobilised to ensure success of our action, nobody should blame the union,” he said.
Korodo said that if the government had met the National Executive Council of NUPENG before now, the action could have been nipped in the bud.
The nationwide warning strike is as a result of unresolved labour issues with multinationals operating in the oil and gas industry.
