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Unpaid for 9 months, workers shut down NPDC pump station
Commercial activities at the Ughelli pump station of the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, were yesterday shut down by hundred of protesting workers over backlog of unpaid salaries.
The protesting surveillance workers were protesting the non-payment of their nine months salary.
The Ughelli Pump Station, UPS, plays host to four crude oil tank farms, receives products from six oil fields within the Oil Mining Lease 30 and supplies crude oil and gas to the Forcados Terminal, Warri and Kaduna refineries.
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The protesting workers were at the entrance of the station carrying placards with inscriptions such as; “NPDC pay us our salary,” “We need our salary from December 2015 to July 2016,” “Surveillance workers are not slaves to NPDC,” among others.
Leaders of the protesting workers, Joseph Onororayevwehra and Jonathan Agiri, while addressing newsmen, threatened that if their demands were not met in the next five days, they would take a “decisive action” against the company.
“We have only allowed Terminal, Panel and Order operators to work skeletally inside the station for now and permitted some staff of the company to gain access into the yard after the Commanding Officer of the 222 Battalion made a passionate appeal to us today (Thursday),” they said.
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews
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