Petroleum marketers deny responsibility for fuel scarcity

Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has debunked statement claiming that the association is responsible for the scarcity of petroleum products and that Nigerians should hold IPMAN responsible for the Scarcity.

The National Operations Controller of IPMAN and the immediate past association National Secretary, Mr. Mike Osatuyi said the statement credited to one Mr. Lawson Ngoa who claims to be the interim management secretary of IPMAN, should be ignored as he is not a member of IPMAN but an agent of the Ministry of Petroleum resources brought in to mediate in the internal crisis of IPMAN.
In a statement issued after the NEC meeting in Abuja, Osatuyi appreciated the intervention of the Minister of state for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu in resolving the internal crisis in IPMAN.
He however said that the forefathers, past presidents, leaders of IPMAN and the general members of IPMAN nationwide will not allow Mr. Lawson Ngoa who is not a marketer talk less an IPMAN member to use IPMAN’s name as a shield to defend or protect a system failure of NNPC.
According to him, “It is pure defamation of IPMAN name to go on air that IPMAN has accepted the responsibility for the scarcity of Petroleum Products and that Nigerians should hold IPMAN responsible for the Scarcity.
“Crisis in IPMAN with government intervention is not new today. Previous Government agencies have intervened in IPMAN crisis without blackmail from the agencies concerned right from the time of Alhaji Jarfau Paki, the then Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Petroleum Matters. Dr. Oluwole Oluleye, the former Executive Secretary of Petroleum Product pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, had intervened in IPMAN matter without blackmailing the Association. Some former Managing Directors of PPMC had also intervened in IPMAN matter without destroying IPMAN’s name.
“IPMAN controls over 80% of the retail outlets in the country and IPMAN has partnered with previous governments to solve previous fuel crisis without damaging the association name.



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