The three days warning strike that was embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) and which ends today has taken its toll on operators and service providers around the petroleum tank farms in Apapa, Lagos.
Petroleum marketers and tanker drivers have lamented that billions of Naira is being lost to the three days strike.
The three days warning strike that was embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) and which ends today has taken its toll on operators and service providers around the petroleum tank farms in Apapa, Lagos.
Petroleum marketers and tanker drivers have lamented that billions of Naira is being lost to the three days strike.
A petroleum marketer, Mr. Olanife Adeoye told Shipping Position Daily in Lagos yesterday that the strike has had a multiplier effect on marketers whose money are currently tied down and that the banks are also groaning because they could not get their commissions.
"The strike has affected everybody, including the food sellers, they bring their food here but there is nobody to buy it"
"Apart from this, the marketers that are supposed to get their product were disappointed, those that are supposed to get commission on transactions could not, the banks are also affected because nobody is going there to take money as usual" he explained.
Also speaking with our correspondent, vice chairman at one of the PTD, NUPENG unit, Comrade Owolabi Jimoh lamented that the union has also lost a lot of money to the strike.
According to him, dues that ought to have been collected are not paid because no product has been loaded. All the petroleum tankers were seen by our correspondent idling away at the depot gates.
He however said that the union is used to the situation and that the strike can go on if the government refuses to intervene and agree to the demands of the union.
Shipping Position Daily gathered that each of the tank farms dispatches not less than 40 trucks of petroleum products on daily basis and that each of the loaded trucks cost about N4.5Million.
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) had on Monday commenced a three-day warning strike to protest alleged inhuman treatment on members by management of Chevron, Agip and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
The strike is also to protest the refusal of National Association of Road Transport Organization (NARTO) to implement the signed collective bargaining agreement with the petroleum tanker drivers and the sorry state of roads across the country.
To ensure the effectiveness of the strike, the union had directed all its members in the depots to stop loading petroleum products for the next three days, with members in all its branches across the country to follow suit.
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