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THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Thursday, March 3, threatened to ask workers to stay at home if the federal government could not find immediate solution to the recurring problem of petroleum products scarcity in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and other parts of the country.
Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said the perennial shortage of petroleum products, especially petrol, made it increasingly difficult for workers to get to their work stations on time, resulting in the loss of man-hours.
“Scarcity of petroleum products has caused long queues at most fuel stations that have fuel, while many more closed their gates with claims of non-availability of the products,” Wabba said.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, must immediately intervene in the current hardship imposed by the scarcity of petroleum products. We will be compelled to tell workers to stay at home should the scarcity persists,” he added.
The NLC leader said the tragedy of the situation has been that Nigerians were yet to be informed by government about the cause of the current scarcity. He said that the labour believed government would not allow any individual or corporate organisations sabotage efforts to restore sanity and good governance in all facets of our society.
Wabba said it was obvious the current fuel scarcity was the handiwork of petroleum products marketers to sabotage the system in order to sell the products at high prices for more profits.
The NLC president, therefore, called on the government to strongly intervene, by sending out appropriate agencies, especially the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to enforce the sale of the products, as some fuel marketers were found to be hoarding the commodity.
— Mar 14, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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