Dangote Refinery launches CNG-powered trucks, dismisses NUPENG’s monopoly claim

By Bayo Wahab

Aliko Dangote, the President of Dangote Group, has announced the rollout of his refinery’s 4,000 CNG-powered trucks amid allegations of monopoly by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG).

Speaking astatine a property league to people the archetypal day since the refinery began petrol production, Dangote said the trucks volition make astatine slightest 24,000 jobs crossed Nigeria.

NUPENG had earlier accused Dangote Refinery of readying to crush the activities of Petroleum Truck Drivers.

The national besides warned Nigerians against the connection of escaped nationwide transportation of petroleum products by the refinery to dispensing stations, describing the determination arsenic a ‘Greek gift.’

Reacting to the claim, Dangote said the deployment of his refinery’s CNG-powered trucks, contrary to NUPENG’s allegation, is not intended to displace tanker drivers, but aimed astatine generating thousands of caller employment opportunities.

“We person not displaced immoderate jobs; we are creating galore more. The CNG trucks volition not beryllium operated by robots. Our employees gain salaries 3 times the minimum wage. Our drivers person a surviving wage, beingness insurance, wellness security covering themselves, their spouses, and up to 4 children, arsenic good arsenic a lifelong pension. We are not lone employing drivers but besides mechanics, fleet managers, and different professionals to enactment the CNG fleet.”

Dangote urged different manufacture players to put successful the sector, saying “he doesn’t privation to beryllium a monopoly.”

On NUPENG’s assertion that Dangote Refinery denied its workers the close to bask state of relation and unionisation, the industrialist clarified that portion the institution respects commercialized unions, rank is simply a idiosyncratic prime for each driver.

Following the caller announcement that the refinery is acceptable to statesman escaped organisation of petrol to stations astatine a reduced price, Dangote maintained that the archetypal batch of CNG-powered trucks has begun taking turns astatine the gantry to load petroleum products.

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