If urgent steps are not taken by the Federal Government, the country might witness scarcity of petroleum products, as the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, PTD, has are given the Federal Government a one week ultimatum to fix bad roads in the country failure of which they will embark on an indefinite strike.
The Tanker drivers said the ultimatum became necessary following the deplorable state of roads across the country.
The state of deplorable roads across the country have been come a nightmare to motorists especially tanker drivers who spent days on journeys that ordinarily would have lasted few hours.
They often get robbed and sometimes kidnapped maimed and unlucky ones get killed, as hoodlums take advantage of these bad spots to carry out their nefarious activities.Fed up by these ugly trend, Members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers PTD Union at the weekend in Warri are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governors of Edo, Delta, Ondo, Ekiti and Kogi to rehabitate bad roads in the nation as well as construct new roads to ease vehicular movement.
The National Deputy Chairman of PTD Union Comrade Lucky Osesua who spoke on behalf of the body said that their members who ply the road daily someotimes encountered broken down tankers as well as lost of lives of tanker drivers.
Comrade Osesua added that the body has engaged the Federal Government on the poor road situation in the country but it yielded no results.
He explained that their actions to embark on a strike should government fail to fix the different failed portions on federal and states road will certainly cause hardship on the masses.
He maintained that their sole aim to embark on strike is not to inflict hardship on the masses but to get governments attention to the poor roads situations in the country.
Speaking in a similar vein, the Vice Chairman of NUPEND Warri Zone Comrade Bello Aneru said that road users spent long hours on the roads due to the bad nature of the road.
With this threat of strike coming from PTD, it would be of the best interest of the masses if governments at all levels fix up bad roads, so as to avert any strike.
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