NUPENG’s National President, Williams Akporeha
The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has faulted the N11.5 billion infrastructure vote cut in the 2018 budget by the National Assembly. The oil workers argued that the action portends a negative socio-economic impact on national and regional road projects like the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the second Niger Bridge, the East-West road as well as Bonny-Bodo highway, among others.
The move, the union said, “is unreasonable and insensitive to the yearnings of the people the parliamentarians claim to represent,” adding that singular decision was capable of impacting negatively on the nation’s economic recovery plans.
In a statement yesterday in Lagos, NUPENG President, Comrade Williams…
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