[Trade Union Congress of Nigeria] TUC in a statement signed by its General Secretary, John Kolawole, stated that it was set to picket filling stations that have refused to comply with the new directive on the price of petroleum products. “The congress hereby advises the State councils of TUC to meet with the State Governors and leaders of thought in the states to prevail on the erring marketers to comply with the new directive on the sale of petroleum products.”….
Condemning the assassination attempt on the life of the National President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN), Dr. Brown Ogbeifun, in his Abuja residence last week, TUC called for full-scale investigations by the law enforcement agencies into the motive of the perpetrators.
“The congress wants the Police to spread its dragnets to fish out people who are on the trail of the PENGASSAN president to forestall further attempt on his life.”
The Congress also said, “The TUC is in total support of the planned action of NUPENG and PENGASSAN in forcing the government to rehabilitate the refineries before July 26, 2004, or face a nation wide strike action. We believe that the two unions are fighting a just cause and no amount of blackmail or intimidation will make them soft-pedal as the action is in the best interest of Nigerians.”
—TUC to picket filling stations, By Bimbo Kesington Labour Reporter, Daily Independent [Nigeria] July 15, 2004.
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