IPMAN Warns Nigerians Of Fuel Scarcity Crisis

Nigerians have been told to prepare for fuel scarcity by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria

The petroleum marketers asked the Nigeria government to triumph on the
Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority to pay its members their outstanding bridging claims amounting to over N500 billion.

On Monday, in kano, the IPMAN chairman Bashir Danmalam, remarked while speaking during a news conference

“He said the failure of the NMDPRA to pay the the bridging claims, otherwise known as transportation claims, had forced many of its members out of business as they couldn’t transport the commodity due to high cost of diesel.

The recurring of fuel scarcity in abuja is just the tip of what is about to come, out of 100 percent of the marketers, only five percent can supply the petroleum products due to the failure of payment by NMDPRA

He also added that after the amalgamation of DPR, PEF, and PPRA to NMDPRA, the agency had paid them only twice.

The chairman, therefore, seek for the Federal Government to intecede before the situation degenerated into a serious fuel crisis and spread to other states. CONTINUE READING…