The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) of withholding petrol its members paid for more than six months ago.
IPMAN, therefore, wants President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the matter to avert another petrol scarcity in the country.
The association alleged that some of its members have as many as 4,000 outstanding tickets worth N7,740,000 each with the NNPCL.
In a statement read to journalists in Abuja by its Suleja/Abuja branch Chairman Yahaya Alhassan, IPMAN claimed that the NNPCL used its members’ money to import fuel but had yet to deliver to them after entreaties
The statement, according to Alhassan, was issued after a caucus meeting of chairmen of depots in Suleja/Abuja, Gusau, Minna and Kaduna.
He told The Nation that the NNPCL supplied some major marketers the product with some concession for their old tickets.
“NNPCL has since given PMS to major marketers with some concessions for old tickets,” he said,
Insisting that IPMAN members should ”enjoy the same concession instead of incurring losses.”
IPMAN which welcomed the removal of fuel subsidy, warned that service delivery would never stabilise if the outstanding product tickets were not settled by the NNPCL.
The NNPCL had last month handed off the monopoly of petrol import and immediately unveiled a new template that raised pump price from N184 to between N448 and 577 per litre in its outlets.
