The Borno chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers
Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has directed members to suspend all operations.
In a statement signed on Tuesday by Mohammed Kuluwu, IPMAN
chairman in the state, the marketers were also ordered to suspend the payment
of ordering products from source until further notice.
The association said the decision followed, “the critical
situation as it affect our sourcing and selling of product at lost (sic) and
the action of the authority to impose the selling of product at a lost price
(sic) on our side”.
“You are all hereby directed to suspend selling at all filling stations and also suspend payment of ordering products from source until further notice,” the statement reads.
IPMAN had said regulatory agencies enforced the pump price
of petrol at N195 per litre at all filling stations across the country.
On Monday, the independent marketers asked for more time
from the federal government to sell its current petrol stock before conforming
to the official price.
Meanwhile, transport groups, under the aegis of the coalition
of transporters, had threatened to picket the headquarters of the Nigeria
National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited due to the lingering petrol scarcity.
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), Nigerian
National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, had said greed in the entire
petroleum value chain is a major reason for the country’s prolonged shortage.
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