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NUPENG vows to resume suspended strike

NATIONAL Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has vowed to resume its suspended strike following Federal Government's inability to reduce prices of kerosene and diesel as agreed by the two parties.

Just as the union leadership and government disagreed over the causes for the rising cost of diesel and kerosene, “NUPENG cartel is the cause, FG nothing like cartel in oil and gas.”

And NUPENG released list of '12 deadly roads' to the government, saying “we are watching to note if government would carry out the repairs on the roads on time in accordance with agreement.”

Speaking with National Daily last week, the National General Secretary, Elijah Okougbo, and the Lagos Zonal General Secretary of the union, Tokunbo Korodo, explained that the union was coerced to use strike to remind government of performing its constitutional responsibilities.

Okougbo explained that the list of the roads were inexhaustible, saying “the 31 roads listed here are the ones we can easily remember. Out of 31, 12 are most deadly, Gombe-Ashaka-Potiskum Road; Suleja-Lokoja-Benin Road; Benin-Sagamu Road; Ibadan-Ilorin Road; Moka-Jabba-Bida Road; Moka-Ilorin Road; Bida-Suleja Road; Makurdi-Calabar Road; Enugu-Port Harcourt Road; Port Harcourt-Warri Road; Port Harcourt-Calabar Road and Aba-Calabar Road.

On the continuous rising of prices of kerosene and diesel, Korodo told the National Daily that the union has written to remind the FG that after two weeks, counting from last week when the letter was submitted, the union would embark on another round of strike since strike is the only language the FG understands to perform its constitutional roles.

“We have submitted a letter to FG to remind it of the agreement, if after two weeks there is not positive response; we will resume the suspended strike.”

In the same vein, the National President of the union, Peter Akpatason lamented that the hope of seeing FG reducing prices of diesel and kerosene was daily becoming dicer.

It would be recalled that Akpatason had blamed the rising cost of diesel and kerosene on cartels and urged FG to publish the daily allocation of AGO. He said the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) is allocating Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) or diesel to cartels.