The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has warned marketers within its Enugu Zone to comply with N145 pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or have their products dispensed to customers free.
Mr Unyime Akpan of Health, Safety and Environment Department, DPR Enugu Office, gave the warning in Awka when he led an enforcement team to Anambra on Tuesday.



Akpan said the team sealed one filing station for allegedly refusing to revert and enforced the pump price sale of the product in nine other stations on Atani road in Ogbaru and some parts of Idemili North Local Government Areas.
He expressed regret that some marketers had remained defiant, in spite of DPR’s efforts to ensure compliance, noting that the DPR might apply more stringent punishment by dispensing products of defaulting marketers to customers for free.
“Petrol price is controlled; stations are not supposed to sell above N145 per liter and if the cost of getting products suggests they cannot sell at that price, then they should leave out.
“Marketers are the people encouraging the hike; if they are not gaining from it, then they leave out until the system returns to normal.
“We may have to begin to dispense their products free because DPR also has the powers; if this price compliance sales proves ineffective, we may be left with no option than to give out their petrol, so that they can understand how serious we are,” he said.
In a reaction, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) absolved its members of any complicity in the hike of petrol price and blamed it on scarcity.
Chief Ikechukwu Nwankwo, Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Depot, in charge of Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states, urged DPR to stop the clampdown the members as sealing outlets and auctioning the products would not solve the problem.
Nwankwo decried the petrol supply situation in the country and called for a more sustainable measure to normalise it.
He said DPR’s action on IPMAN members, especially those under his zone, amounted to being punished for a problem they did not cause and could not solve.
Nwankwo said that solution to the problem was massive and sufficient supply of petrol into the system by the NNPC.
The IPMAN chairman said marketers were making efforts to make the product available to customers as complete scarcity would amount to shutting the economy and holding the masses hostage.
“I have spoken with my members here in Anambra, the situation of fuel supply is bad and it is our wish that we begin to get products like the way it used to be before.
“IPMAN is not happy with the way the DPR is harassing us, closing our stations and auctioning our products. It is like they want to push us out of business because we cannot continue to suffer this loss.
“NNPC is not allocating products to us, DPR should go and monitor the marketers that get allocation from NNPC; how can we buy product at N190 or N195 and DPR sells them off at N145.
“We make extra effort to get product at tank depot so that economic activities can go on and we should not be punished for that; we may have to close our stations if they continue to pursue us,” he said.
NAN reportes that pump price of petrol has dropped from between N240 and N250 to N200 per liter.

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GOOD DEVELOPMENT

Ok

DPR make sure dis 1 nah talk'n do oo

No be today we start to dey hear this thing

This DPR are as stupid as their leader, who is the petroleum minister

At 145naira per litter this people make around 500.000.00 gain on each tank of 45000 litters at the current price of 133naira per litter,
why the marketers are not satisfied with it is what bordered me.

ManirBK:


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make we hear word jare

I really need explanations.

Can anyone in layman terms tell me why we are buying above #145 pump price?

Why is NNPC incurring a landing cost of #180 per liter of fuel on importation?

Why can't we refine our fuel?

I NEED LAYMAN EXPLANATIONS PLEASE? I AM TIRED OF TOO MUCH BIG GRAMMAR!

let them finish their old stock nah...u guys started it ..since December is the only month u guys can make money mischievously ...useless folks

tell them.

Story!


I bought it N200 at G&G Mushin yesterday.

The most annoying thing was that, the extra 20 litres I bought in a keg only measured about 16 litres. Corrupt in this country has become an inoperable cancer.

NA TODAY? NA DEM DEM

here at lakowe and awoyaya epe expressway it is selling for 180

So sorry for Nigeria. Until people realise that Buhari has brain damage so daft. They will continue to suffer

Nigerians

If they lift fuel at the normal price, will they sell above approved price?
DPR should go to depots and make sure tankers load at normal price

ManirBK:
GOOD DEVELOPMENT

okosodo:
This DPR are as stupid as their leader, who is the petroleum minister

So Buhari should personally go to each Filling station to enforce a directive

Why do you people always talk like a nut is missing from your head?

This is the kind of poor leadership Obasanjo mentioned in his letter yesterday where he said that Buhari is not sound intellectually but still think he can bark out orders and fiats to fix the economy but unfortunately economic problems only bow to superior strategy and not military command ..Instead of telling marketers what price to sell their product in a scarcity deliberately brought on by Buharis incompetentence the govt should get a strategy on how to wet the country with affordable fuel and watch the queues and black markets disappear but like Obasanjo said to expect that from a very daft Buhari is like leaving lice on you clothes and expect your fingers to be blood stain free .

govt cant continue to interfere in people's businesses and not get a resistance. NNPC isn't telling Nigerians the truth, the more they try to force pump stations sell at their regulated price, the more resistance they get. There's some nasty things going on under Nigerians noses that NNPC isn't saying, they brought the news about paying subsidy of N28 but its way beyond that.

Just for saying sake...

Nigeria is a great nation but manage by very weak brain president that lead to starvation, killing, violent, poor economic etc and still some people who have Harlow thinking intellect are still supporting him to come again.

When did we get here? who did this to my country?

Stethaine:
So sorry for Nigeria. Until people realise that Buhari has brain damage so daft. They will continue to suffer

Keep blaming Buhari while fellow Nigerian who have been blinded by greed continue to Rob you blind.

Tell them

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hisgrace090:
At 145naira per litter this people make around 500.000.00 gain on each tank of 45000 litters at the current price of 333naira per litter,
why the marketers are not satisfied with it is what bordered me.

333 naira per litre Where You chop stupidity sleep