Cease Making Capital Out Of Helicopter Crash, Redeem Your Picture & Finish The Cracks Within the Union-  PTD Tells NUPENG

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Department of NUPENG has requested the President and Normal Secretary of the dad or mum physique to pay attention their energies on redeeming their battered picture and placing an finish to the lingering disaster within the union as a substitute of constructing capital out of the misfortunes of oil and fuel staff who have been concerned within the helicopter crash final week.

A 79 years previous elder, Comrade Joseph Dagogo-Jack within the Port Harcourt Zone of PTD gave the cost in a press release issued Sunday night in Abuja.

It was broadly revealed that the unlucky incident occurred at 11:22 a.m alongside the waterways in Port Harcourt on Thursday, October 24, 2024 when the helicopter, a Sikorsky SK76 with registration 5NBQG and operated by East Wind Aviation, took off from Port Harcourt Army Base (DNPM) to the FPSO – NUIMS ANTAN oil rig. A complete of eight individuals have been on board, however have been all feared useless. 

Dagogo-Jack assertion reads; “I used to be in distant Spain to see my dentist when my private assistant despatched me a press launch from NUPENG whereby the management of the Union commiserate with the households of oil and fuel staff who misplaced their lives in an helicopter crash on Thursday in Port Harcourt.  There’s nothing mistaken in that and as a person who believes within the sanctity of life, I solemnly say might the souls of the departed proceed to relaxation in good peace.

“Nonetheless what is predicted of NUPENG’S Normal Secretary, Olawale Afolabi and the President, Williams Akporeha is to collectively think about the best way to unite the union, particularly PTD which is the one viable and surviving Department; they need to repair the cracks inside it and drop all instances in courtroom and permit a contemporary breathe by bestoring management legitimacy on Comrade Fortunate Osesua, Comrade Dayyabu Garga, Comrade (Chief) Peter Moudebelu (Onwa), Comrade Dr Humble Obinna Energy and others. This can in the end restore sanity within the Union and produce about progress and prosperity and that’s the fashionable opinion of all of the members and the elders within the Union. If NUPENG’s management can swallow their delight and do that, their misplaced integrity, honour and dignity can be totally restored.

“Issuing press releases and statements and making an attempt to make capital out of each occasion and scenario within the nation which has no bearing with the union’s philosophy or curiosity would do them no good, it’s purely a misplaced precedence. For instance the victims of the helicopter crash have been all PENGASSAN members; and that effectively organized union, has responded appropriately. NUPENG has executed nothing to uphold and defend the rights of its members who’ve been subjected to humiliation, casualization and servitude within the oil and fuel trade, however NUPENG is at all times fast to make public appearances on TV and making paid adverts on newspapers, on inconsequential issues and abandoning severe points which have direct bearing on the lives and livelihoods of their members who’re paying check-off-dues.

“Inside NUPENG, many employees members have been sacked by way of trump up fees, some have been arrange, many branches are fully destroyed, no cohesion, no coverage course, no customary no ideas, all of the legacies of the union’s founding fathers are completely ruined by one man. It is usually on document that the Normal Secretary, Afolabi Olawale is at all times altering the Collective Bargaining Settlement of the employees, in addition to the bye legal guidelines and the structure of the union to swimsuit his egocentric and unholy narratives. What occurred to integrity? What occurred to ethical rectitude? Operating a Union as massive as NUPENG as non-public property may be very ridiculous to say the least.

“It’s, nonetheless, on document that Afolabi has no regard for the fundamental norms of human conduct. He lacks any self-awareness or self-scrutiny. He appears past embarrassment. The one ethical and social compass he follows is his personal false and fraudulent concepts about what is acceptable and inappropriate, shameful or deceitful.

 “I’ve stated it earlier than and can repeat it once more that Afolabi has proven himself to be the brightest bulb within the field, criticising others however missing the capability to abdomen criticism in order to place him heading in the right direction, that isn’t management. So those that are associating themselves with him ought to have a re-think such that they might not soil their integrity and credibility within the eyes of the general public, judiciary, legislation enforcement companies and different trade stakeholders who’re watching with eager consideration and curiosity. Might God restore stability and progress in PTD.”