The Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the National Union of
Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has threatened to withdraw its
service if the Eleme Junction Road leading to the Port Harcourt Refinery in
Rivers State, was not repaired. Speaking in Lagos yesterday, National President
of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Mr Salimon Oladiti, said that some members of
the group had suffered various degrees of injuries as a result of accidents
caused by the bad road. He said that as a result that particular portion of the
road, about 80 per cent his members now avoid that area and come to Lagos from
Port Harcourt to load products, adding that with the influx of tankers into
Lagosover-stretch facilities in the West Zone of the group. Trucks fall on a
daily basis and people are killed in the process and our members are also
losing their trucks.
Vanguard Newspaper
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