Petrol Marketers Defy PENGASSAN Strike Order, Open For Business In Enugu

Despite the onslaught directive by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASDAN), each filing stations opened for concern successful assorted parts of Enugu connected Monday.

As of the clip of filling this report, our analogous besides observed that nary filling presumption accrued the pump price.

Some owners of filling stations who spoke to our analogous condemned the onslaught order, describing it arsenic a sabotage to the nation’s economy.

A filing stations owner, who spoke connected information of anonymity for fearfulness of victimisation, said they were not blessed implicit the Union’s incessant onslaught connected Dangote Refinery.

“I don’t cognize wherefore each these attacks against Dangote Refinery, honestly. They should let contention due to the fact that it volition assistance to alleviate the sufferings of the masses and besides marque america to merchantability astatine affordable terms and marque our money.

“Why are they aft Dangote who invested billions of dollars and today, we are practically seeing the affirmative effects of his investments arsenic the pump terms of substance is present sold astatine beneath N1,000 successful Enugu and different places.

“The Federal Government should telephone this alleged unionists to order. They should enactment erstwhile indispensable and not to frustrate a antheral that invested heavy successful this sector. If genuinely they are warring for those allegedly sacked, determination are different ways to benignant it retired and bring them back, not these incessant distractions,” helium stated.

A nonmigratory astatine Obioma Street, Achra Layout, Mr Ndukwe Igbokwe urged the authorities to telephone the unions to bid with a presumption to reducing the sufferings of the masses.

“These alleged unions bash not person our involvement astatine heart, each they privation is to execute their selfish interests. The refineries built by authorities person not been moving implicit the years and what person they done? Since each these years, person they called authorities to bid and the reply is no”.

Our probe further revealed that transport fares person besides stabilised portion determination was not scarcity of substance and different petroleum products in the State.