The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has said that the planned strike by Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Lagos will commence today as its meeting with Lagos State Government ended in deadlock.
Chairman of the South-West chapter of NUPENG, Tayo Aboyeji, disclosed this in Lagos on Sunday.
Aboyeji said, “They only promised to get back to us after we have told them what we want to avert the strike.
“Now, our stand still remains that they should address the issues of extortion and harassment of our members by security agents.
“Security agents and hoodlums are extorting our members and officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management use taser on our drivers and this can kill.
“Since they are not ready to address these issues, we will start the strike on Monday morning (today) until they are able to resolve them.
“It is unfortunate that the strike might affect all other states in the federation, because most of them load their petroleum products in Lagos depots.
“We are not happy to disrupt fuel supply because we know the effect but we cannot continue to cope with the problems.”
National President of the NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, had in a statement on Friday directed tanker drivers in Lagos to withdraw their services as from Monday, if the outstanding issues are not resolved.
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