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 Fuel
Subsidy Removal: Asari Dokubo Amasses Support For
Jonathan…Orders PENGASSAN To Vacate Oil Platforms
By Polycarp Nwaeke
Alhaji Asari Dokubo, a former militants' hench man has ordered
the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of
Nigeria (PENGASSAN) officials to vacate oil platforms in the
Niger Delta.
Dokubo who thundered this order in a mass protest he organized
in Port Harcourt in support of the Petroleum subsidy removal
also warned labour and other groups that are protesting against
President Jonathan's government to stop disturbing the president
in order not to derail his reform processes.
Asari who was shielded by a large army of protesting Niger Delta
youths condemned the cabal in Lagos and Kano who have been
benefiting from the fuel subsidy, saying it was no longer
business as usual as President Jonathan is determined to change
the status quo.
He warned that if anything happened to the President the country
would explode and ordered the PENGASSAN who had threatened to
shut down oil installations to vacate all oil platforms in the
Niger Delta.
Consequently, the militant hench man and his army of protesting
youths had straight-away, moved from the protesting ground to
occupy the oil platforms.
Their placards showed that they were heading to take over Oando,
Mobil, Total and other prominent filling stations in an around
Port Harcourt.
The strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to
protest petroleum subsidy removal by President Jonathan has
paralyzed the economy of the country and it has been estimated
that for the 5 days it has lasted Nigeria has lost more than
N800 billion naira.###
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