AS motorists groan under the increase in the prices of petroleum products across the country, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has vowed not to re-open petrol stations, shut by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) over disparity in pump price.
Investigation conducted by the Nigerian Tribune indicated that oil marketers have not been able to lift the product at the depot of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Apata, in Ibadan for the past few weeks.
The development it has learnt has compelled some of them to source the products from private refineries in Lagos State, thus making them to sell a litre of petrol for N110, taking into account the transport and other landing cost.
DPR,however, had kicked against the moves to sell above the official rate of N97 per litre and several petrol stations had been shut down due to the disparity in the price.
To this end, motorists are finding it difficult to buy fuel at few petrol stations in Oyo and Osun states, as a result of long queue dotting the major streets.
Addressing a press conference over the development in Ibadan, IPMAN chairman, Chief Oyewole Akanni, disclosed that his members, in both Osun and Oyo states would not open their gas stations until the government, through the NNPC made the product available at the NNPC depots.
According to him, “our reaction is in order and we want to prevent the DPR from creating a friction between marketers and the populace, being members of the public as well, we have advised all our members to stop buying petrol from any private depot in Lagos.”
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