The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (PTD- NUPENG) has urged the federal government to ensure that work commences in earnest on the repair of federal highways which it has earmarked public funds for their execution.

The union also expressed disaffection over its exclusion from the ongoing Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) scheme of the present administration.

The PTD- NUPENG took the resolutions in a communique issued at the end of its quarterly National Executive Committee meeting held in Benin, Edo State capital at the weekend.

Findings revealed that the federal government at the end of its Federal Executive Council meetings held in June and October announced approval for the sum of N42.4 billion and N740 billion, respectively for repair of certain federal highways in the country.

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In a communique signed by Comrades Augustine Egbon and Oluchi Chinagorom, National Chairman and National Secretary, respectively of the PTD- NUPENG, they urged all the relevant federal agencies of government to take necessary measures to ensure that Nigerians get the value for the public funds by insisting that the contractors fix the federal roads before the peak of the rainy season.