[ODUNEWS] January 27 – NUPENG, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, has urged Nigerians to hold marketers accountable for the country’s ongoing gasoline shortage.
Information garnered by ODU News found and confirmed that merchants in different locations across the country have ridiculously hiked the price of Premium Motor Spirit, or PMS, also known as gasoline, by at least N100 per litre, and in worse situations, well over N200 per litre
NNPC, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, sells to marketers for N133. They have a lot of depots. Plus or minus, the price from the Depot increases to N148 for a litre.
In a statement released yesterday by NUPENG’s President and General Secretary, Prince Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale, among others, the union said it was “deeply compelled to raise concerns and worries over the struggles Nigerians are facing to obtain Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) for their daily businesses, movements, and wellbeing for the third time in the last 12 months.” This circumstance disgusts and shames us greatly.
We want to let everyone know that the union’s rank-and-file members truly understand and share their suffering.
To demonstrate our commitment to service, all of our members in the supply chains of the petroleum products distribution industry, including depot workers, petroleum tanker drivers, and petrol station workers, have since been placed on red alert to serve, and they have been readily available and dutifully carrying out this onerous and patriotic task even at the risk of their lives due to the prevailing security challenges.
We are facing this to demonstrate our commitment to service. All of our members in the petroleum product distribution supply chains, including depot workers, petroleum tanker drivers, and petrol station workers, have been placed on red alert to serve, and they have been readily available and dutifully carrying out this onerous and patriotic task even at the risk of their lives due to the current security challenges we are dealing with right now.
“Even at the moment of this press release, seven of our members who are tanker drivers moving product from A.Y. Shafa and some other ports from the south-south to the northern part of the country are hiding in the bushes of the highway along Benin-Auchi-lokoja roads due to attacks by bandits and hoodlums.
