The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced to extend its support to the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to enhance distribution of petroleum products across the country
Dr Maikanti Baru, group managing director of NNPC, said that the initiative is in line with the corporation’s commitment to making life easy for PTD members that it intervened in the rehabilitation of the Dikko Junction to Suleija Depot in Niger State last year.
He listed other palliative road rehabilitation intervention to the union by NNPC to include Mokwa-Jebba Road and Iwuru 1 and Iwuru 2 portion of Ekpet-Ugep Road in Calabar, Cross River State.
“To cap it all, NNPC is working with the Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing on the rehabilitation of various portions of the Jebba-Mokwa Road that need immediate intervention based on the observations of PTD members who complained about the failed portions which take many long hours for tankers to navigate through,” he stated.
Comrade Salimon Oladiti, national chairman of PTD, thanked NNPC for its commitment to the rehabilitation of downstream infrastructure across the country, adding that it is set to add more value to the growth of the downstream sector in Nigeria.