The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has advised the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited to increase fuel allocation to its members to reduce queues in filling stations.
IPMAN National Vice President, Alhaji Hammed Fasola, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Friday that the fuel scarcity was due to low allocation.
He said if IPMAN members get the product directly from NNPC, the price per litre will be affordable for Nigerians and the queues will reduce.
He says its members sell petrol at a higher price from other major marketers or depot owners because they get the product exorbitantly from third parties.
Fasola said IPMAN members were being pushed to private depot owners “and we don’t find it palatable.”
“We go there sometimes, and they will sell at N720 per litre, and in their own stations, they are selling N620 or N650 per litre; you can see the disparity and the public will not understand.”
On the purported increase in PMS pump price by some Nigerians, Fasola said IPMAN had not received any information to that effect.
“We should take it as fake news,” he said.
