Alleged privatization of parks: Your claim false, sponsored, Imo NURTW stakeholders tell Nonso Nkwa
Stakeholders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW,Imo State Branch, have dismissed as false,unfounded,malicious and a misleading blackmail, a recent claim by a social media influencer, Chinonso Uba,aka Nonso Nkwa,that motor parks in the state, are being privatized by leadership of the union.
The union leaders who spoke in Owerri, during the monthly State Council meeting of the body, declared that the malicious and misleading claim was sponsored by desperate elements within the rank and file of the union,some of whom had held topmost positions in the union, but failed woefully in their duties.
A former chairman of the union, Comrade Izuchukwu Okebaram while speaking on the issue said though the union leadership doesn’t want to react to the claim because it was nothing but tissue of lies and propaganda, the stakeholders chose to clear the air to prevent the unsuspecting members of the public from being misinformed and misled by the empty allegation.
He said the claim was false,unfounded and obviously sponsored,wondering why someone of Nonso Nkwa status should allow himself to be used to try to deceive the general public with falsehood. Comrade Okebaram stressed that the correct thing that should been done by Nonso Nkwa if he didn’t act under undue influence,would have been to carry out investigation into the claim, by reaching out to the leadership of the union, and getting its own side of the story before rushing to the social media.
Adding his voice, High Chief
Herbert Iwuji, former state chairman and former National Executive Council Member, said that there was nothing like selling or privatization of parks. According to him right now there two parks in Owerri Arugo and Chukwuma Nwoha,with those working in them being NURTW members. He called on anyone who’s in doubt about the status of the
Parks to visit any of them, with a view to finding out whether workers there are union members, or not.
Another former state chairman, Prince Eddy Musa Akano, described the allegation as frivolous and untrue, and called on members of the public to disregard it.
Other stakeholders who reacted to the claim said the current leadership is not in the business of privatizing or selling union assets, but was working on recovering portions of the unions land allegedly illegally disposed, by the immediate past leadership under Comrade Samuel Udeh
