The National Leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG ) and the National Union of Electricity Employees of Nigeria (NUEE) have warned against harming workers who are protesting the ‘anti-labour policies’ of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
The two unions spoke after thugs attacked protesters in Kaduna on Tuesday around the NEPA roundabout in the metropolis.
NUPENG and NUEE who have respectively cut fuel and electricity supply to Kaduna in solidarity with the workers threatened to go national with their industrial action.
NUPENG, in a statement by its president Williams Akporeha and General Secretary Adoration Ola, called on the Federal Government to immediately call on Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir EI-Rufai to order, before his “arrogance and power drunk ego further push the situation into horrendous calamity as he has been doing in all issues relating to human lives and wellbeing.”
“Consequently, the Union reiterates that no Labour Leaders or workers as the case may be, be harmed, harassed, maimed, humiliated or victimized during this 5-day peaceful protests in the State.
“Our Union is raising this alarm following the very reliable report of the clandestine move of Governor Nasir El-Rufai to hurt and put the lives of NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and other Labour Leaders to danger in his usual blind egotistical style of running government in the State
“NUPENG therefore warns that if any harm is inflicted on any of the members of organized Labour, the Leadership of the Union will not hesitate to call on all our members throughout the nation for a total shut down of all our services in the upstream, mid-stream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry.”
