Oyo NUPENG to embark on indefinite strike
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Mon, 1 Jul 2013 || Nigeria,
OYO state Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum,Energy and Gas workers Otunba Salmon Oladiti yesterday said NUPENG is to embark on indefinite strike in the state over arrest of a tanker driver by the state Environmental officers.
The NUPENG Chairman dropped this hint while speaking with journalists in Ibadan during a chat with journalists on the 3 day warning strike ordered by the NUPENG national body.
He declared that there will be no going back on the indefinite strike until the arrested tanker driver identified as Olaolu Fakunle is released from Agodi Prison ''unconditionally'.
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He said ''As I am talking to you now,one of our members is in prisonyard for a minor traffic offence.That our member was given a fine of N250,000 or 2 years imprisonment''.
Otunba Oladiti maintained that NUPENG members in Oyo state have resolved that unless the arrested tanker driver is released without any condition,''we in Oyo state will not go back to work even after the end of the 3 day national warning strike''.
The Oyo state NUPENG Chairman added that throughout the indefinite strike by the state chapter of NUPENG,''filling stations in the state will not sell until Oyo state government is ready to meet us in a round-table talk''
Commenting on the enforcement of the national warning strike,Otunba Okaditi said the state chapter ''is presently observing 100 percent compliance of the national strike''.
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