NUPENG Lost Over N10bn in 5 Days Claims NUPENG Chairman

The South-West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Mr. Tokunbo Korodo, told newsmen earlier today that members of the union lost more than N10bn during the 5-day strike embark upon by workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) last week.



The strike which was called off over the weekend, due to the intervention of the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had plunged the nation into perpetual darkness and also disrupting major business activities.

Mr Tokundao, in a telephone conversation said that the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Petroleum Tanker Drivers, NUPENG and NNPC were losing more than N2 million daily in South-West during the strike. According to him, the NNPC depots at Ejigbo and Mosini in Ogun State were paralyzed during the strike therefore, tanker drivers could not lift petroleum products from the depots.

He added further that other businesses around the depots were hit, small scale businesses like food vendors and recharge resellers lost more than N5mn within the same strike period.

He said that “The NNPC management has not paid their N85 billion pension till now.

“We are imploring the National Assembly and other stakeholders to prevail on the NNPC management to pay their part of the scheme because oil workers have paid their part,”.