NUPENG,JEPTFON suspend strike action

The
National Union of
Petroleum and
Natural Gas
Workers
(NUPENG) and the
Jetties and
Petroleum Tank
Farm Owners
Association
(JEPTFON) on
Friday
suspended it
two-day old
strike.
This is contained
in a communiqué
jointly signed by
NUPENG,
JEPTFON, the
Group Managing
Director of NNPC,
the Executive
Secretary,
Petroleum
Product Pricing
Regulatory
Agency (PPPRA),
the Minister of
State for Finance
and the Minister
of Labor.
The NUPENG
President Igwe
Achese and
JEPTFON’s Enoch
Kanawa, signed
for the unions,
while Chief
Emeka Wogu, Dr
Yerima Ngama,
Mr Andrew
Yakubu and Mr
Reginald Stanley,
signed for
government.
The communiqué
made available on
Saturday stated
the Ministry of
Finance had
commenced the
payment of the
Petroleum
Subsidy for 2012.
It also assured
the unions that
the issuance of
Sovereign Debt
Notes for verified
and processed
batches would be
concluded within
two weeks.
The Federal
Government
assured NUPENG
that steps would
be taken on the
issue of access
roads leading to
the refineries in
Port Harcourt and
Warri.
The communiqué
stated that NNPC
said it would
complete the
`Turn Around
Maintenance’ (TAM
of the refineries
as planned and
ensure availability
of crude them.
It was further
resolved that
JEPTFON “shall
open the jetties
and depots
owned by its
members’’.
It will be recalled
that NUPENG had
embarked on
strike over the
non- payment of
2012 Petroleum
Subsidy arrears,
state of the
refineries, bad
roads as well as
restructuring of
loans of JEPTFON
members. (NAN)