The Independent Petroleum
Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Thursday said that petrol allocations
by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to Ibadan Depot was
grossly inadequate.
Alhaji Raimi Tayo, Chairman,
Ibadan Depot of IPMAN, lamented that independent marketers hardly load 12
trucks daily.
Tayo said that the situation was
causing scarcity of petrol in the hinterlands.
According to him, the depot –
which usually loads six million litres on daily basis – has reduced the loads
to 400,000 litres per day.
This development, he said, has
affected business activities of independent marketers.
He alleged that the Federal
Government gave more attention, in terms of product allocations, to private
depots.
“Petroleum products allocation to
Ibadan Depot was grossly inadequate.
“We have appealed to the
government through the NNPC to pump enough products to the depot so that
marketers can be in business.
“As at this morning, private
depots are selling at N158 per litre as against the government-regulated
ex-depot price of N133.28 kobo,’’ he said.
Tayo appealed to the government
to clamp down on depot owners who sold above ex-depot price to marketers.
According to him, although
members of the public accuse marketers of selling above the official pump
price, there is no way marketers will sell petrol at N145 per litre at filling
stations when the product is sold for between N158 and N162 per litre at
private depots.
The IPMAN chairman appealed to
the NNPC to make petrol available to marketers at depots to ease distribution
to hinterlands.
He condemned government
directives asking marketers to source for the product at private depots. “This
is wrong and unprofitable,” he said.
He pointed to pipeline vandalism
and inadequate pumping of petroleum products from System 2B – at Mosinmi – to
Ibadan as challenges.
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