Borno NUPENG Solicits For Motor Park

The leadership of NUPENG in  Borno State,  has appealed to the state government to assist it to build its trailer park to provide good parking environment for trucks and prevent accidents.

Its Vice-Chairman, Ali Ghana, made the appeal in Maiduguri on Monday in an interview with newsmen.

Ghana said that the chapter had recorded four cases of burnt trailers in the last two years where many people lost their lives.

He said the union had, in the past years, secured a large piece of land that could accommodate more than five hundred trailers, but did not have the fund to develop it.

“Most of our tankers are carrying petrol, diesel and gas that can attract fire easily, stressing that “our tanker drivers are parking on the main roads, which is not safe because usually you will see people using fire woods to selling their foods there also.

He said “as you can see we have “akara sellers”; this man is also selling tea and bread, other people are selling fish”.

The union vice-chairman said that tanker drivers were directed to park in their various filling stations, but lamented that many of them didn’t have filling stations.

Ghana appealed to the state government to emulate states like Gombe, Zamfara, Kano, Plateau, Kaduna and Adamawa and provide suitable trailer parks for tankers.

However  NUPENG is one of the 29 industrial unions currently affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress.

Its objectives include the unionisation of all workers employed by petroleum and natural gas industries.