Tanker Drivers Suspend Fuel Supply To Enugu

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Unit (PTD) of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has stopped the supply of petroleum products distribution to Enugu state following the failure of the state government to pay compensation for a demolished filling station.

The Chairman of the PTD union in Enugu State, Comrade Friday Nweke, stated this in a statement that the government demolished a filling station belonging to the Union during the expansion of a road construction in the coal city and refused to pay any compensation to the union.

He said in 2011 the Enugu state government demolished a filling station jointly owned by the union and Cimeco investment in coal camp while expanding the road, stressing that the state government promised to compensate the union but reneged on the compensation payment till now.

Comrade Nweke said the union has urged the state government to give the union another place to build a new filling station.

He said the national body of the union gave the directive for suspension of the supply of petroleum products to Enugu pending the government’s reaction to the union demand; stressing that no depot in Nigeria is supplying fuel to Enugu State until the government compensates the union.

Meanwhile, the price of fuel in the Enugu State has risen from N97 to between N130 and N150 per litre apparently due to the suspension of the supplying petroleum products by the powerful union to the state.