It’s Coming: The Worst Fuel Scarcity Ever- Nigerian Petrol Marketers
There seems to be darker days ahead for Nigerians as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has asked Nigerians to prepare for the worst fuel crisis.
To avoid this, the petrol marketers association asked the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority to pay its members their outstanding bridging claims amounting to over N500 billion.
The IPMAN chairman in Kano State, Bashir Danmalam said this while addressing a news conference in Kano State on Monday.
He said the failure of the NMDPRA to pay the the bridging claims, otherwise known as transportation claims, had forced many of its members out of business as they couldn’t transport the commodity due to high cost of diesel.
He was worried that non-payment of the claims by NMDPRA for over eight months had crippled the businesses of many of their members as they couldn’t transport the commodity even though it was available.
Danmalam called on the Federal Government to intervene before the situation degenerated into a serious fuel crisis and spread to other parts of the country.
