The marketers said except the CBN provides foreign exchange to import fuel, the recent subsidy payment they received from the government will remain in their naira accounts. Oil marketers on Friday, May 20, lamented that they are unable to import fuel due to the unavailability of foreign exchange. The marketers, under the umbrella of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DPPMAN), are appealing to the Federal Government to assist them in making foreign exchange available. They made the plea during a meeting at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance. The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and attended by Chief Executive Officers of 46 major oil companies in the country. The agenda was to discuss salient issues affecting the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Chairman of DAPPMAN, Dapo Abiodun, told the minister that members of the association finding it difficult to convert some of the naira payments made by the government to dollars. He said their inability to convert these payments from the Federal Government from naira to dollar is making it almost impossible for them to meet their obligations to their foreign partners. He said while the oil marketers will continue to do their best in importing petroleum products into the country, the unavailability of foreign exchange might make it challenging to achieve such objective. The Federal Government this week announced that it has paid the oil marketers N48.2 billion minus value added tax as the arrears of outstanding 2015 subsidy claims. According to Adeosun, the payment is to enable the marketers import petroleum products and meet up their other financial needs. Abiodun however said except the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provides foreign exchange to them, the payment will remain in their naira accounts. He said: “We want to thank you for the recent payment of about N42 billion but we want to emphasise the fact that this naira payment will continue to sit in our banks. “We look forward to dialoguing with you as to how you can help us expedite the sourcing of foreign exchange to liquidate our exposures to our foreign bankers that we have line of credit with. “We are very worried about going into a new dynamics in which marketers are now going to be sourcing forex at the rate that they can find, which we have approximated to around N285 to a dollar. “We believe that it is a quick fix solution to all the epileptic supply of petroleum products in the county. “However, we still have this naira sitting in our account from previous transactions and we are worried that if anything happens to the rate of exchange officially, we are going to be caught in between. “We do not want to come back to you to ask for foreign exchange differentials which issue we still have pending from previous transactions.” Adeosun said the recent subsidy payment released to the oil marketers is one of the liabilities inherited from the Goodluck Jonathan administration. While expressing optimism that the reforms currently being implemented in the oil sector would restore confidence in the market, she said assured that government will continue to ensure the availability of petroleum products in the county.”

Buhari Sef!

Really!

What is wrong in this country?

This people are not serious u want to get dollars at 199/$ and sale fuel at 145??

Better buy module refineries to feed ur feeling stations bunch of over pampad babies feed by subsidy milk

Pathetic Government. How can dey refuse to sell forex at the official price to marketers but expect them to purchase it at the black market?

What have we done to deserve this crazy set of leaders? If marketers buy from black market wouldn't this mean we will pay more for fuel? APC Anuofia!

The simple solution to this is to make d refineries work . But the sad thing is that some avengers are busy blowing up the line.

Op, please sauce (provide source of your post) this your post. FG is getting everything wrong. Oil marketers now have no option but to depend on them(CBN). If they(marketers) should source forex at the black market, fuel will be selling, may be, at #200 per litre.

You are just a pathetic goat who know nothing and refuse to learn. Why are u people creating nuisance all over internet whth ur stupid posts. Is foolishness innate thing to u. What do u expect govt to do in this situation. Hatred has really blocked ur sense of reasoning. Cant u see that those people want to armtwist d govt by secure fx at 198 and sell fuel to us at N145 per litre. You people should at least use ur sense small nah. Haba! How far was ur life under jonathan self.

peacengine:
Pathetic Government. How can dey refuse to sell forex at the official price to marketers but expect them to purchase it at the black market?

What have we done to deserve this crazy set of leaders? If marketers buy from black market wouldn't this mean we will pay more for fuel? APC Anuofia!

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olalat:
You are just a pathetic goat who know nothing and refuse to learn. Why are u people creating nuisance all over internet whth ur stupid posts. Is foolishness innate thing to u. What do u expect govt to do in this situation. Hatred has really blocked ur sense of reasoning. Cant u see that those people want to armtwist d govt by secure fx at 198 and sell fuel to us at N145 per litre. You people should at least use ur sense small nah. Haba! How far was ur life under jonathan self.

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My life under Jonathan was heaven on earth. How is your own life under Buhari? You are facing endless hardship yet you still dey spew trash.

Get da fvcck off my mention

Ha ha ha ha ha ha
It appears it's not only the NDA, NLC and IBOB that are against this foolish and cursed government of bubu the dullard.
Oil companies have join.... lobatan!

Sipping my kunu in Daura

Government of All Personnel Confused APC

This is what happens when you are not prepared for an office but wants to be in the office.

When in the crowd, don't criticize someone in the crowd.

We will sack buhari. He is fantastically unable to govern this country

Shameless govt

hmmmmmm, get dollars at official rate, sell the commodity to us at parallel market rate. God go punish you people.

This cannot be true oooh

Government of the zombies and for the zombies.

FG should source for oil themselves. I mean through NNPC. Cut out the middle man and it will probably be even cheaper and cut down prices. Let's see if they will kill themselves these marketers.

fake news, OP is the source but wailers are OK with that in as much is against this administration.

olalat:
You are just a pathetic goat who know nothing and refuse to learn. Why are u people creating nuisance all over internet whth ur stupid posts. Is foolishness innate thing to u. What do u expect govt to do in this situation. Hatred has really blocked ur sense of reasoning. Cant u see that those people want to armtwist d govt by secure fx at 198 and sell fuel to us at N145 per litre. You people should at least use ur sense small nah. Haba! How far was ur life under jonathan self.

Bro.. stop wailing...