NUPENG Working For Those Stealing Nigeria’s Money Says Okonjo-Iweala

NUPENG is anti-Nigerians. NUPENG is siding with the wrong people. There is no reason for NUPENG to hold Nigerians to ransom on behalf of people who have been taking public money for fuel they did not supply.”
The Presidency have lambasted the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, describing the union as anti-Nigerians over its insistence to embark on nationwide strike unless oil marketers are paid their subsidy claims.
Newsmen gathered that the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, vowed that NUPENG can’t hold Nigeria to ransom because they present themselves as agents of the fuel subsidy cabal that are milking Nigerians of billions of Naira.
The union said that only the payment of subsidy claims to verified oil marketers by the Federal Government would avert the planned nationwide strike from Friday as leaders of the union meet with Government today to find solution to the lingering dispute. But the minister who has been meeting several stakeholders in the oil industry insisted that NUPENG is working for the interests of corrupt people.
She said that if NUPENG was interested in the welfare of Nigerians and the nation’s economy, it would join forces with government in stopping the impunity that has been associated with subsidy corruption which has even attracted public outcry.