The federal government has begun to release to members of
the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria
(IPMAN) trucks of petrol to offset about 7,000 of their loading
tickets which they said had been outstanding at products
depots in the country.
IPMAN said in a statement from the
Secretary of their Reconciliation/Interim Management
Committee, Mr. Lawson Ngoa in Abuja that some of their have
started loading products from some depots in Lagos.
It explained that the development was made possible by the
intervention by the committee which was recently constituted
by federal government to reunite them after years of
leadership tussle.
Ngoa said that IPMAN controls over 80 per cent of the
petroleum products retail outlets in the country but they were
not getting the products from the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) due to the internal leadership crises it
had.
According to him, the committee has now taken steps to
ensure that products are available at its retail outlets all over
the country.
Ngoa in the statement thanked Nigerians for their patience
and understanding with the government on the fuel scarcity.
