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Rivers Police Frowns At IPMAN Members Blocking PTD-NUPENG From Distributing Petroleum Products


 

Rivers State Police Command says it's attention has been drawn to a protest by some disgruntled elements last week Saturday along UTC junction to Government House, Port Harcourt, who alleged that the Commissioner of Police Eboka Friday did not allow them to extort money from petroleum tankers’ drivers.

Public Relations Officer SP Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement said the Command would have ignored the protest considering the fact that most people captured on camera on that day were hired urchins. 

According to the statement, the need to save Rivers people from being fed with wrong information has necessitated the response.

Residents of Port Harcourt and its environs will easily recall that for about a week preceding the day of the protest, PTD-NUPENG embarked on a strike action as a result of which the people of Rivers State suffered untold hardship due to the resultant fuel scarcity. 

The Commissioner of Police as a way of expressing his love for residents of the State, convened a meeting of all stakeholders on 16th of September
 2022 which at the end of the deliberation a communiqué was issued and NUPENG called off the strike action.

The statement also stated that as the PTD-NUPENG started loading, a group of disgruntled elements who perhaps were happy that there was scarcity in the town, blocked them from distributing petroleum product, insisting on collecting tolls from them. Irked that the agreement which took hours to attain was about to be scuttled, the Police moved in to allow the tanker drivers do their work. 

The next day, the group who called themselves IPMAN, hired some urchins to disturb the peace of Port Harcourt. 


SP Iringe-Koko while calling on residents of the State to discountenance the protest, reassured the public that whoever does anything to stop the smooth supply of petroleum products in this State, will be brought to book.

 

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