Following the start of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria’s Suleja Depot Branch’s three-day warning strike, Abuja, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger, and neighbouring states may see another round of petrol shortages.
The union’s members started their strike on Monday in protest of the federal government’s ongoing bridging claim obligations to oil marketers for the payment of gasoline transportation costs.Information Guide Nigeria
According to Yahaya Alhassan, the chairman of the IPMAN Suleja Depot Branch, marketers had ceased supplying goods from the depot because the union had blocked trucks from transporting PMS to the northern states.
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Marketers, he claimed, were ceasing their services until the Federal Government resolved their unresolved bridging claims.
He said, “The Petroleum Equalisation Fund has not paid our money. We have N50.5bn (to be paid by PEF) and because of that we are withdrawing our services.”
He said the three-day warning strike would go on if the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority fails to remit the money.
“At the expiration of the warning strike on Wednesday, if they (NMDPRA) fail to pay us, the stoppage of supply would continue indefinitely,” Alhassan stated.
