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  • NUPENG threatens to withdraw services over alleged monopoly by Dangote Refinery  

    NUPENG threatens to withdraw services over alleged monopoly by Dangote Refinery  

    The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG),which is the mother body of Petroleum and Tanker Drivers (PTD) , have described the decision by Dangote Refinery to deploy 10,000 CNG tankers for the movement of petroleum products around the country as monopoly of the Nigerian petroleum sector.

    They also, stated that the action is anti-labour and inimical to the survival and means of livelihood of members of PTD branch of NUPENG.

    The tanker drivers posited that drivers recruited by Dangote Refinery for the operations of the CNG tankers will not be allowed to join any trade union, saying Dangote Refinery’s action is an affront to the provisions of the 1999 constitution and the international labour laws.

    Some of the drivers who spoke with journalists and craved anonymity said the situation at hand, if not urgently and properly addressed by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, may escalate and could pose a very serious threat on the Nigerian economy which in turn affect the livelihood of a good number of Nigerians.

    The tanker drivers listed the following as looming dangers associated with the move by Dangote Refinery: Majority of tanker owners who earn their livelihood will become jobless; Truck drivers, motor boy, wife and children who rely on this occupation will lose their source of income; Truck mechanics, painters, rewire, welder, tank fabricator will also lose their source of income; Dealers of tyres, batteries, spare parts and all other accessories will lose their businesses which will aNect their dependants; Depot representatives, artisans, food vendors will eventually lose their jobs; Transporters who have invested heavily in this sector through finance homes and banks will go into bankruptcy; As a result of this, millions of jobs will be lost, and this will lead to social insecurity, poverty and high rate of unemployment.

  • Don’t Patronise Fake Oil And Gas Bodies, NUPENG Cautions

    Don’t Patronise Fake Oil And Gas Bodies, NUPENG Cautions

    The leadership of our Union has identified fraudulent advertisements from individuals falsely claiming to represent a dubious association of Transporters and Oil and Gas Marketers. The association urge the public and government institutions to be vigilant against these unscrupulous figures, who seek to exploit the current economic landscape following the removal of fuel subsidies. The Union reaffirms its support for recognized associations in the industry and urges all stakeholders to reject these miscreants and their deceptive practices.

     

    The open letter read thou;

    The attention of the leadership of our great Union has been drawn to some advertisements on news media of some unscrupulous and dangerous individuals claiming to be members of one amorphous association they claim is both Transporters and Marketers of the Oil and Gas at the same time, and we wish to state that this association is nothing but assemblage of failed Rent Seekers in the Subsidy Regime and Irredeemable Smugglers of Petroleum Products disguising as businessmen and women.

    The general public and government institutions are hereby warned and strongly . advised to be very wary of these individuals who are desperately seeking ways and means to continue to exploit Nigerians and collecting rents in other manners since the current administration removed subsidy from petroleum products and make

    smuggling unprofitable for them.

    The leadership of our great Union recognizes National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) as the legitimate umbrella body of Transporters in the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry and Employers of Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD) of which our Union has Collective Bargaining Agreement with on behalf of Petroleum Tankers Drivers.

    We also recognize Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Major Energy Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN) as well as Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) as legitimate marketers of Oil and Gas products. These are associations of Marketers that are well known and respected in the downstream sector of the Nigeria oil and gas industry.

    There is also no ambiguity in the fact that the Nigeria Labour laws only recognize

    Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and

    Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) as the umbrella bodies

    for oil and gas Workers in Nigeria. These are the two organizations that represent and

    protect the job interests of the Nigeria oil and gas workers including Petroleum lanker Drivers (PTD) as prescribed in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Niger

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    We implore all well-meaning Nigerians and government officials whose names these

    Usurpers and Rent Seekers are dropping to urgently disregard any invitation from them and publicly denounce them because they are purely mischief-makers, names Droppers and unscrupulous business individuals that can sell their families and country

    for money and are unfortunately part of those that plunge the country into the current economic woes and hardship that the country is currently battling and struggling with. Following numerous failed attempts to coerce our Union into collecting money for them at various petroleum depots, they have now resorted to these names-calling and cheap blackmail to further their insidious rent-seeking schemes.

    Our Solidarity remains Constant for the Union makes us strong!!!

  • You were Blatantly Rejected Stop your Foolhardy Actions – PTD of NUPENG Concerned Members Blast Troublemakers

    You were Blatantly Rejected Stop your Foolhardy Actions – PTD of NUPENG Concerned Members Blast Troublemakers

    A group of concerned members of the Petroleum Tanker Driver (PTD) of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called on the aggrieved members to stop dragging the reputation of the organization in the mud, while also imploring stakeholders to disregard the sponsored propaganda against the executives and that the members should go about their normal bussiness without fear of intimidation.

    In their words “We want to call the attention of our leaders and all members of Petroleum Tanker Driver (PTD) Branch of NUPENG to these prolonging shameful and unprofessional acts by our immediate past national chairman and some disgruntled Members where they go about releasing damaging information about our union and its leaders.

    “Comrade Lucky Osesua, Comrade Dayyabu Garga, Comrade Peter Moudebelu(Owan) and disgruntled members should know that they can never achieve anything good with all these shenanigans.

    “They must realise that the union is not a one man business and that it’s nobody’s property as it belong to all members. So there is no reason for them to go this low trying to destroy the house that built them because election does not favour them.

    “It is God that makes leaders and give positions, so they must know that no individual, no matter how powerful has the power to push them out of office.

    “They must accept the fact that none of these people; Comrade Williams AKPOREHA, Comrade Afolabi Olawale, Comrade Otunba Salimon Akanni Oladiti, Comrade OLUJIDE Solomon Kilanko, Comrade Augustine Egbon that sent them out of office, IT IS SIMPLY THAT “THE MEMBERS REJECTED THEM AT THE POLL. So they should stop badmouthing these wonderful leaders.

    “And the fact remains that if they handled the situation with wisdom, they would still remain our respected leaders and may still hold important positions in the union in future.

    “So they should stop fooling themselves by trying to bring down the house built by God himself. The founding fathers of our dear union built the union based on love for all, respect for leaders and people in authority, and service to/posterity of members. Not on ill-feelings, hatred, covetousness, revenge, destructive tendencies, slandering and false misrepresentation as portrayed by Comrade Lucky Osesua, Comrade Dayyabu Garga and others.

    “We are ashamed whenever we go through the newspaper and see many of their shameful propaganda, it is so demeaning for them, and they should please stop and stop disgracing us

    “They say they are the real leaders of PTD Branch of NUPENG because of a kangaroo election they conducted. And we are telling them that Leadership is not by force, they cannot impose themselves on we the members of PTD.

    “We will not be quick to forget the rigorous exercise we went through on the 31st of October, 2023 to elect our true leaders, an election that produced Comrade Augustine Egbon as the Chairman.

    “So who are the members that elected them into office and how many are they? They should tell us the units and zones the members come from? What Labour representative supervised their election and which NUPENG official officiated their election. WHY ARE THEY FOOLING THEMSELVES?

    “We want our respected leaders to ignore these sets of destroyers. It is clear that they are mere losers trying to distract them from the good work they are doing.

    “We acknowledge the many welfare and developmental programs/projects going on across all our zones, most importantly the recent Health Insurance Scheme for all members.

    “We also call on all members to be aware of the antics of the forceful leaders, we must all know that they are instruments of the devil to destabilize our ranks. GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE SWEAT OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WILL PUT THEM TO SHAME.” The group concluded.

  • PTD is One and United under NUPENG- Tanker Drivers

    PTD is One and United under NUPENG- Tanker Drivers

    • All Tanker Drivers are United and Indivisible Under NUPENG PTD
    • There Are No Factions in PTD Branch of NUPENG

    Members of the petroleum tanker drivers( PTD) a branch of Nigerian Union of petroleum and Natural Gas workers ( NUPENG) have vowed to use all available legal means to avert attempt by some saboteurs whose intension is to cause confusion among stakeholders in the nigerian petroleum sector.

    A concerned member of PTD, Ejigbo depot, who craved anonymity narrated how he witnessed how a group of people suspected to be loyal to a former national chairman of PTD – Mr Lucky Osesua and one comrade Ganiyu Oyebola ( a.k.a ten million) who is under suspension for anti union activities jointly led some thugs under the disguise of protesters to disrupt business activities at Ejigbo NNPC depot last Thursday.

    NNPC Ejigbo is one of over 70 depots under the Lagos zonal council.

    He revealed that the union leadership is aware of the evil scheme of traitors and enemies of the union to cause confusion and mislead the general public.

    According to him, Mr Lucky Osesua was a formal national chairman of PTD. He said his tenure was voided by a court judgement which terminated the election that brought him in.

    A fresh election held in Ibadan on 31st october 2023 brought in another PTD chairman in person of comrade Augustine Egbon.Mr lucky Osesua and his cohorts who were not favoured by the new election gathered themselves to conduct a kangaroo election and has since been parading themselves as PTD faction.

    Also, another prominent member of the unit has condemned the attack on the members of care-taker committee appointed by the PTD branch of NUPENG Lagos Zone, to run the affairs of Ejigbo depot while carrying out their legitimate duties on thursday 7th of december 2023.He noted that the protesters ,in the first instance are not members of PTD branch of NUPENG , therefore, they have no moral justification to stage a protest and make frivolous allegations against the Zonal chairman, Comrade Saheed Omogbolahan Adigun, who was not even at the depot on the day of the said protest.

    He urged the leadership of PTD and its mother union, NUPENG to, as a matter of urgency, report the matter to the appropriate authorities and security agencies to get rid of thugs hired and stationed at the depot by the rebellious group for the purpose of causing chaos in the Nigerian petroleum sector, thereby creating undue panic among the general public.

  • PTD of NUPENG is Not Embarking on Any Form of Protests

    PTD of NUPENG is Not Embarking on Any Form of Protests

    There was a news making rounds that the Petroleum Tankers Drivers branch (PTD) of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) workers will exit the umbrella body and embark on a nationwide protest to enforce the resignation of the NUPENG’s President, Williams Akporeha and General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale.

    The statement which was credited to one Gbenga Olawale who was said to be a PTD Ibadan depot ex-officio. He directed in the statement that PTD members across the country should move with leaves in front of their trucks to warn NUPENG and police against interference and incessant harassment of their leaders.

    However in a swift response to the statement of the purported unrest, the National Chairman of the PTD Comrade Augustine Egbon dismissed any form of planned protest.

    According to the statement by Egbon he urge the public to disregard any protest statement, in his words “I wish to alert the general public of the antics of some desperate and mischievous individuals to cause unfounded and dangerous panic in the supply chain of Petroleum Products distribution in the Country through spreading of fake and false news items.

    ‘The Petroleum Tanker Drivers are not embarking on any form of protest and we are determined to continue our services to the nation and wholeheartedly support the efforts of the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to put our economy on the right track for the good of all of us.

    ‘We wish to further reiterate the fact that there is no division in our Union and the Branch of Petroleum Tanker Drivers. Our members are fully committed and United in our collective struggles as we believe that Workers United, can never be defeated.

    The general public are implored to ignore these mischief makers and Security Agencies are hereby called upon to fully investigate this panic creating news items as the citizens are already going through enough tough times and situations.’ He concluded

    Sources within the Ibadan Branch of the PTD have also revealed those behind the news of the protest are not original members of the Union, a member who would not like to be mentioned explained that Gbenga Olawale and Adekunle Rufai are not bona-fide members of the PTD and that their names are not on the list of the Ibadan depot executives of the PTD and also not on the list of ex-officio of the PTD as they claimed.

    The crisis was due to the issues emanating from the outcome of the leadership election into the umbrella union the NUPENG, where Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale, emerged as President and General Secretary as Against Lucky Osusan and Dayyabu Garga being supported by another group. The crisis is to solicit legitimacy for their various faction even amongst the PTD branch.

  • NUPENG Suspends Indefinitely 12 Members for Breach of Peace, drags them to court for prosecution

    NUPENG Suspends Indefinitely 12 Members for Breach of Peace, drags them to court for prosecution

    Information emanating from the National Secretariat of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the Petroleum Tankers Drivers Branch has slammed an indefinite suspension on some members of the union over their anti-union activities and actions that may lead to breach of peace in the country.

    In a circular made to members of the union, it reads that the members lend their support to the executives led by the current president Comrade Augustine Egbon, the circular reads, “This is to inform all our members that the President, the Deputy President of NUPENG, General Secretary and the National Chairman Of PTD are greatly doing well.

    “But Lucky Osesua and Dayyabu Garga who before now were members of the union has been arrested over activities that nearly caused breach of peace, they were reported to the police who arrested them and will prosecute them in the court where their fate will be decided.”

    The circular further employ the members to disregard any contrary information coming from any other source other than the recognised structure of PTD headed by the National chairman, Comr. Augustine Egbon.

    Those placed on indefinite suspension are Peter Moudebelu, Dayabu Garga, Musa Dennis, Osesua, Walter, Tiamiyu Ojo, Osahon Osamuyi, Humble Obinna, Dele Nwaka, Sylvanus Idanwekhai, Akinlolu Olabisi, Gambo Ibrahim Tuge.

    In the letter of suspension cited they were accused of conducting illegal congress to elect new national leaders of the union in disobedience to the order of the court nullifying such.

    Below is a sample of the letter sent to the suspended members;

    LETTER OF INDEFINITE SUSPENSION FROM THE UNION

    The National Secretariat of the Union is in receipt of documentary, audio and video evidences of you and some other individuals illegally organizing and conducting elections for the national offices of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of the Union in Abuja, in the early hours of Tuesday,3lst October, 2023 in disobedience and in contempt of the

    judgement of Hon. Justice Bashar A. Alkali of the National lndustrial Court of Nigeria, in the Yenagoa Judicial Division, holden at Yenagoa on Suit No. NICN/YEN/L/2022 that

    nullified the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of NUPENG’s election held on 30th June, 2022 in lbadan, Oyo State, dissolved the former executive and mandated the National Secretariat of NUPENG to conduct a fresh elections for the national offices of the

    Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch ofthe Union.

    Your actions, conducts and utterances were totalviolations of the Union Constitution and the Bye Laws of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch including the resolutions

    taken at the Branch Executive Council meeting of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch on 20th September 2023 in Asaba, Delta State.

    It was on the basis of the above that a resolution was taken and adopted at the Special Delegates Conference of the Branch on Tuesday, 3L’t of October,2O23 recommending

    LETTER OF INDEFINITE SUSPENSION FROM THE UNION

    The National Secretariat of the Union is in receipt of documentary, audio and video

    evidences of you and some other individuals illegally organizing and conducting elections

    for the national offices of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of the Union in Abuja, in

    the early hours of Tuesday,3lst October, 2023in disobedience and in contempt of the

    judgement of Hon. Justice Bashar A. Alkali of the National lndustrial Court of Nigeria, in

    the Yenagoa Judicial Division, holden at Yenagoa on Suit No. NICN/YEN/L/2022 that

    nullified the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of NUPENG’s election held on 30th June,

    2022 in lbadan, Oyo State, dissolved the former executive and mandated the National

    Secretariat of NUPENG to conduct a fresh elections for the national offices of the

    Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch ofthe Union.

    Your actions, conducts and utterances were totalviolations of the Union Constitution and

    the Bye Laws of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch including the resolutions

    taken at the Branch Executive Council meeting of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch

    on 20th September 2023 in Asaba, Delta State.

    It was on the basis of the above that a resolution was taken and adopted at the Special

    Delegates Conference of the Branch on Tuesday, 3L’t of October,2O23 recommending your expulsion from the Branch and the Union to the National Executive Council of Nigeria

    Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).

    your expulsion from the Branch and the Union to the National Executive Council of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).

    To worsen the matter, on Wednesday, 1’t November 2023, the President of the Union,

    Comrade Williams Akporeha and the General Secretary of the Union together with the

    Chairman of the Caretaker Committee set up after the dissolution of the former executive

    by court and six principal officers of the newly elected executive of the Branch were

    brutally and viciously attacked at the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch office at 50

    Moses Majekodunmi Crescent, Utako , Abuja by you and co- conspirators ably assisted by

    some assailants, thugs and arsonists.

    These actions are definitely condemnable and heinous crimes and cannot be condoned

    in any way by the Union and in any decent Society.

    ln the light of the above, you are hereby immediately placed on an indefinite suspension

    from the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG and from the Union

    generally pending when the National Executive Council of the Union shall take

    appropriate actions and measures on the matter.

    You are hereby directed to hand over all the Union properties in your possession to the

    Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Chairman of your Zone and by a copy of this letter all

    relevant Security Agencies, Government lnstitutions and all Stakeholders in the Oil and

    Gas lndustry should not transact business or have any official union relationships with this

    ma n.

    Thank you.

    Yours faithfully,

    FOR: NIGERIA UNION OF PETROLEUM AND NATURALGAS WORKERS

    BI OLAWALE

    General Secretary

    P resident – NUPENG

    Trustees – NUPENG

    State Commissioner of Police – Nigeria Police Force, Kaduna State

    State Director of DSS – Department of State Services (DSS), Kaduna State

    State Commandant – NSCDC, Kaduna State

    President and Executive Secretary – NARTO, Abuja

    Chairman/Secretary – Kaduna Zonal Councll of NUPENG

    Chairman/Secreta ry – PTD Branch of NUPENG

    Chairma n/Secreta ry – PTD Kaduna Zone of NUPENG