Barring any last minute change in
plans, truck owners would suspend transportation of petroleum products across
the country, beginning from today.
Vanguard reports that the truck owners had last week,
issued a seven-day ultimatum within which to withdraw their services over
alleged unpaid bridging claims and reduction of freight rate paid to its
members by the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF.
At a joint press briefing addressed by the
leaderships of the National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, and
the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the National Union of Petroleum
and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, the groups threatened to withdraw their services
at the expiration of the seven-day.
National President of NARTO, Alhaji Kassim
Ibrahim Bataiya, who was assisted by PTD’s Comrade salimon Olatidi at the media
briefing, demanded that the management board of the PEF must immediately
commence the full payment of transporters’ claims.
The truck owners warned that they
will suspend their services of movement of petroleum products from one
destination to the other through out the country, should the management of the
Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF, continue to default in payments of
transporters’ claims.
Alhaji Bataiya asked the management board of
PEF to immediately commence the full payment of transporters’ claims as well as
the accumulated outstanding claims in respect of the period January 1, 2011 to
May 11, 2016 at the rate applicable from 2011 to December 31, 2015.
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