The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has debunked allegation that it was responsible for the current fuel scarcity in the country.
The national operations controller, Mr Mike Osatuyi, said a statement to that effect was credited to Mr. Lawson Ngoa, who he described as an agent of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources brought in to mediate in the internal crisis of the association.
“While the intervention of the minister of state for petroleum, Dr.
Ibe Kachikwu, in resolving the internal crisis in IPMAN is
appreciated and commendable, the forefathers, past presidents,
leaders of IPMAN and the general members of IPMAN nationwide
will not allow Mr. Lawson Ngoa, who is not a marketer or an
IPMAN member, to use IPMAN’s name as a shield to defend or
protect a system failure of the NNPC.
“It is pure defamation of IPMAN name to go on air that IPMAN has
accepted the responsibility for the scarcity of petroleum products
and that Nigerians should hold IPMAN responsible for the scarcity.”
Recall that the minister of state for petroleum resources, Mr Ibe
Kachikwu said queues would disappear from filling stations in
Abuja and Lagos by today, April 6.
But latest development has shown that the fuel queues will
continue into the weekend.
Although two new vessels, Mt. Mersk Kalea and Mt, Alizea, carring
21 million metric tonnes of petrol berthed at the Apapa jetty, a
Punch newspaper report said ofloading and distribution will take another 3 or 4 days.
“But discharge had not started because they have to determine
those to get the product and they have to do all the formal
documentation. There is still documentation for naval clearance;
there is documentation for the DPR clearance; the DPR will also go on board since it is an imported vessel.
“They cannot start to discharge now. The earliest time they can do
that is probably tomorrow (Wednesday) night or Thursday
morning. Because of the subsidy component, the Petroleum
Products Pricing Regulatory Agency will want to see whether it is in line with the approval given.
“So, those are the things that will actually delay the discharge of
the vessels. It should take a minimum of two days. So, people
may not feel any vessel is discharging until the weekend. Thelogistic issue is now the problem,” the source, who is an official of an independent marketer said.

Nixiepie:
I'm tired of this fuel scarcity I swear,this Govt should do something fast abt it already and quit pointing accusation fingers here and there

Fedayeen:
The govt is travelling to China this weekend to sign a railway deal. Is that not a better news than this fuel scarcity

francizy:
Hahahahahahahaha! Where are the zombified demons that claimed Buhari's ineptitude should be blamed on marketers? Hahahahahahahaha! I'm just here to laugh tho...