The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, disclosed on Tuesday that over N10bn revenue was lost in the course of the five-day strike embarked upon by workers in the nation’s oil sector.
Chairman of the South-West Chapter of the union, Mr Tokunbo Korodo, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, said the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, NUPENG and NNPC were losing more than N2m daily in the South-West region while the strike lasted.
DailyPost recalls that the operation of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was shut down on September 15 as a result of the non-payment of N85bn pension benefits. The industrial action came to a halt on September 19 after a meeting between the NNPC management and the two unions of oil workers.
According to Korodo, business activities within NNPC depot in Ejigbo and Mosinmi were also paralysed by the strike with food vendors, credit card sellers and other businesses also losing above N5m within the period.
He, however, disclosed that the strike was suspended because of the intervention of the National Assembly, which promised to resolve the matter, but was quick to add that NNPC management has not fulfilled its own part of the pension scheme till now.
Hear him, “The NNPC management has not paid their N85 billion pension till now.
“We are imploring the National Assembly to prevail on the NNPC management to pay their part of the scheme because oil workers have paid their part,” he said.
Comments