Nigeria Union Of Petroleum and Natural Gas Warns Its Members Against Selling Adulterated Lubricants

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has warned its members to shun selling adulterated engine lubricants to unsuspecting members of the public.

NUPENG cautioned that adulterated engine lubricants could damage cars and other machines, adding that members caught in the act of selling adulterated products would be dealt with.

National Industrial Relations Officer of NUPENG, Mr. Bassey Harry, issued this warning on Thursday in Port Harcourt while speaking with lubricant dealers, who were members of the union.

Harry pointed out that the union was not a place where members would be allowed to do whatever they wished to the detriment of the public, adding that the sales of fake and adulterated products would not be tolerated.

According to him, a task force had been set up to monitor the activities of engine lubricant dealers across the country, adding that the Standard Organisation of Nigeria and the Nigeria Police would be part of the task force to check the excesses of some NUPENG members.

“You deal in engine oil (lubricants); how do you feel if a man buys your oil, puts it in his car engine and the bad engine oil damages the engine of the man’s car?

 “We will not allow engine lubricant dealers to be a branch of NUPENG that will destroy the image of NUPENG. We must desist from selling adulterated engine lubricants. If you sell genuine oil, you will be in business.

“So, don’t sell adulterated oil so that motorists and other users of your product will not abandon you and only buy the products in big fuel stations. Henceforth, you must sell original engine lubricants.

 “If you buy genuine oil for retail, God will see you through and you will make your profit. But if you sell fake lubricants, your customers will get to know and you will be out of business in no distant time.

“NUPENG also rejects any tanker driver that goes to a pipeline to siphon fuel. We are aware that some of the tankers burnt belong to NUPENG members,” he added.

 Harry, however, urged members of the union involved in the sale of engine lubricants to register with NUPENG in order to avoid being embarrassed by the task force that would soon begin the monitoring of their activities.  NATION