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IPMAN blames NNPC for fuel scarcity, alleges marginalisation
Even as Nigerians are painfully chewing the bitter pill occasioned by the lingering fuel crisis, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), one of the major stakeholders in the value chain, has heaped the blame on the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Speaking on behalf of the group, its Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Dankigari, on Tuesday, lamented that its members were being schemed out by the NNPC.
According to him, members of the association’s trucks which had been at the depots in the last five days were not given supplies despite having loading vouchers worth over N5billion with the NNPC.
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“We have over N4 to N5billion tickets with them (NNPC) but they refused to load members of Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) for five days now.”
Dakingari said that the corporation was only loading its retail outlets and major marketers that even lifted their products on credit.
The Vice President, who noted that IPMAN had made several entreaties to the NNPC to no avail, urged the media to put the NNPC on the spotlight to enable Nigerians know what was responsible for the prolonging fuel scarcity.
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