Tanker Drivers

Contractors Working On Roads Linking Fuel Depots Have Abandoned The Project – Tanker Drivers

Contractors Working On Roads Linking Fuel Depots Have Abandoned The Project – Tanker Drivers

Vice Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, Sunday Alabi, has asserted that contractors working on roads linking fuel depots were nowhere to be found. He stated that works on Takoradi and Kumasi roads have been abandoned by these contractors government awarded the contract Mr Alabi noted that although works had commenced on the roads linking to the depots, they have been left unattended to. He said the Association looks forward to the government keeping its promise to complete the road project. “As we speak now, the contractors are not on the road the way they started the…
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Petroleum Tanker Drivers Call Off Nationwide Strike

Petroleum Tanker Drivers Call Off Nationwide Strike

The Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Tanker Drivers have called off their industrial action. After a two-hour intense meeting with the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, the unions arrived at this decision. During a media interaction after the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, Alabi Sunday said that the union will call off the strike at midnight on Thursday, June 29, 2023, as they expected to resume work on Friday, June 30, 2023. “The access road to the depots in Kumasi, Takoradi and Bupe are to be…
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Roads Ministry To Engage Aggrieved Tanker Drivers On Thursday

Roads Ministry To Engage Aggrieved Tanker Drivers On Thursday

On Thursday, June 29, meeting has been set by the Ministry of Roads and Highways to meet the aggrieved National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union. Details of the meeting have not been revealed but the sit-down follows an indefinite strike by the Union which started on Monday, June 26 on the basis of bad roads leading to various depots in Takoradi, Tema, and Kumasi, operated by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST). Despite the assurances by government that the roads will be fixed, the drivers remain adamant, emphasizing that they would not go back to post until the…
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