Worsening fuel scarcity may persist nationwide if security agents are not cautioned to stop their brutality and extortions on tanker drivers along the highways in the country.
Otherwise, drivers’ Branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (PTD– NUPENG) has threatened strike over alleged illegal activities and high-handedness of security agents, particularly the Military Task Force operating in the Port Harcourt zone of the Union. The union said the planned shutdown can only be averted if commensurate compensations were paid to affected members.
The National Chairman of the PTD-NUPENG, Mr Lucky Osesua, told journalists in Abuja on that men of the Military Task Force operating in Port Harcourt burnt two trucks conveying High Pour Fuel Oil (HPFO), otherwise known as black oil on Tuesday night as the truck drivers were falsely accused of transporting crude oil.
According to the PTD-NUPENG National Chairman, the trucks, which lifted the black oil at a modular refinery, Walter Smith Refinery and Petrochemical in Ibigwe, Imo State, on Monday and Tuesday, were intercepted between Ahoada and Elele in Rivers State.
