•As NUPENG orders tanker drivers to stop loading
Lagos residents may experience fuel scarcity from this week as the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) has instructed tanker drivers in Lagos zone to stop loading from Tuesday and Wednesday.
The union’s National Chairman, Comrades S. A. Oladiti and National Secretary, Sunday Ochibejivwie, in a statement, stated its members may embark on strike in Lagos from this week.
The strike, they explained, is to protest the unwarranted killing of one of their members, Comrade Olalekan Lawal, by men of Operation Mesa in Lagos last April.
The union said, failure of the constituted authority to heed to its demands and request for compensation, unabated excesses of military men at check points and demands for samples of products by security operatives from ten to twenty litres at various points are parts of its grouse.
NUPENG vowed to reverse the trend, stating that drums are lost in the process.
The union also directed its members nationwide to carry green leaves in solidarity and protest the slain tanker driver from last Thursday.
Source: The Nation
