The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Thursday alleged that oil marketers and depot owners are sabotaging free-flow of fuel supply in the country.
President of the union, Comrade Achese Igwe, who disclosed this in Lagos at a press briefing organized by the aggrieved faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said the actors in the fuel scarcity saga are driven by profit motive and inordinate ambition to unduly benefit from fuel subsidy fund.
He said: “oil marketers and depot owners are sabotaging free-flow of fuel supply in the country. This explains why the country is currently being enmeshed in scarcity of the product with attendant fuel queues at filling stations few days to the crucial general elections.”
Igwe also carpeted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for using private depots to store fuel, adding that the development gives owners of the facility undue advantage to create scarcity of the product at their whims.
According to him, the NNPC should call the marketers to order as well as strive to put government-owned depots in proper shape so as to use them for haulage of the products.
He said the Federal Government should try as much as possible to bring back the ailing refineries, adding that the development would go a long way in nipping perennial fuel scarcity in the country.
He also said his union was determined to ensure discharge of fuel to all nooks and crannies of the country.
Earlier at its inaugural Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Lagos, factional leader of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajearo expressed concern over the sudden emergence of long queues in major cities due to insufficient supply of petroleum products in the country.
He said: ’’ Central Working Committee therefore directs all affiliates and state councils of the NLC to urgently put in place the mechanism to monitor and ensure compliance with the approved N87 per litre pump price of petrol.
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