The national president of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Mr. Achese Igwe has argued that the industrial action threatened by the union is not for the payment of oil subsidies to fraudulent oil marketers but to secure the payment of salaries to workers in the sector.
Mr. Achese Igwe was on our breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, to explain the reasons for the impending strike which has already grounded the Federal Capital Territory, leaving the residents to resort to black market.
According to the union leader,some of the workers in the sector are currently being owed for over three months salary.
However, a member of the civil society in our Abuja studio, Mr. Ejembi urge the oil workers union not to put the lives of over 160 million Nigerians at risk over a struggle for the oil workers that number about 15,000.
Mr. Abah Ejembi claims NUPENG is fighting the battle for their ‘bosses’-the oil marketers who are entangled in allegations of fraudulent claims in the management of the nation’s fuel regime with the Ministry of Finance.
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