Corporation workers shut head office, fuel supply

chika ebuzor

March 10, 2016 5:59 AM

This is coming on the heels of the recent ‘unbundling’ or restructuring of the corporation.

Aggrieved workers in the corporate headquarters of the

Also, all NNPC mega filling stations and product depots have been closed, Punch reports.

You will recall that the minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu announced that NNPC had been split into 7 divisions.

There are indications that the supply of fuel and other related petroleum products might be hampered by this industrial action.

According to Punch, an oil marketer said “The petrol supply situation in Lagos and its environs became worse on Wednesday because of the directive by PENGASSAN and NUPENG to their operations men not to process tickets for the marketers to load the product.

“The supply problem before now has not been addressed. Over 80 per cent of the petrol in the country is being supplied by the NNPC. Out of the seven depots doing throughput, only about three had the product on Wednesday and marketers could not load from them because of the directive by the unions.”

Kachikwu has however cleared the air on the issue, saying that the government is yet to unbundle NNPC.

He also said he will soon resolve issues which led to the shutdown of NNPC facilities.

The Federal Government set up NNPC to regulate and participate in the country's petroleum industry, but the corporation has been festered with all manner of fraud and illegalities in recent times.

chika ebuzor