Rivers NLC Sets Up Petroleum Monitoring Taskforce

Following the incessant artificial scarcity of petroleum products in the state, occasioned by filling stations managers, the Rivers State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),  Chief  Chris Oruge (JP), has set up a 10-man Petroleum Monitoring Taskforce to check and put a stop to such ugly trend.

According to the chairman, the taskforce is charged with the responsibility of among others, to monitor filling stations that hoard petroleum products, arrest and prosecute any filling station manager caught in the act of hoarding the product.

He said, the taskforce  also had the power to close down any filling station selling fuel above the Federal Government’s approved pump price of N97.00 per litre price.

The congress chairman advised filling station managers operating in the state to stop the habit of hoarding the product to cushion the suffering of the masses, stressing that scarcity of the product would pose further untold hardship to the people of the state.

The chairman charged members of the taskforce to discharge the onerous task given to them creditably in the interest of the people of the state.

Earlier, the taskforce chairman, Comrade Emecheta Chukwu had promised on behalf of the other members of the taskforce never to disappoint the organised labour and the people of the state in their assignment.

He added that the Labour Petroleum Monitoring Taskforce would work in cooperation with other agencies with a view to making the product available in the state to reduce suffering and scarcity of the product.

Members of the Labour Petroleum Monitoring Taskforce include Comrade Emecheta Chukwu, chairman, Comrade Harry Bassey, Vice Chairman while Chuks Boms will serve as Secretary .

Philip Okparaji