By Paul
The country’s current gasoline crisis may intensify in Lagos and neighbouring states, as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, threatens to shut down fuel supply to the state over claimed violent attacks, intimidation, harassment, and extortion of members by hoodlums.
NUPENG stated that hoodlums on the Lekki Free Trade Zone Route, Eleko, Ibeju Lekki, posing as community youths under the guise of Indigenous Unity Forum, had been harassing, threatening, and extorting money from every Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, member on the road.
NUPENG’s General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale, lamented in a letter to the state governor titled “Industrial Peace And Harmony In Lagos State: Demand For Urgent Action,” dated October 28, 2022, that the union had previously denounced the activities of these elements and written to several authorities, including security agencies, but to no avail.
