Barring
any last minute change in plans, truck owners would suspend transportation of
petroleum products across the country, beginning from today.
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.
He further
asked the PEF management board to immediately conclude the review of the
freight rate from May 12, 2016 to date, in accordance with the bridging fund
approved by the government.
-VANGUARD-
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