ANOTHER ROUND OF HARDSHIP AWAITS NIGERIANS, AS DEPOT OWNERS THREATENS TO WITHDRAW SERVICE

“We are continually under pressure from our banks/AMCON, with looming threats of imminent take-over of our petrol stations and tank farms.In the light of the above and after exhausting all formal avenues to secure payment of these debts, we have given government notice to the likelihood of disengaging our personnel’,Adewole declared.

‘ The unfortunate primary fallout of this step is the likely shut down of all DAPPMAN depots nationwide due to lack of manpower to operate same pending the time the government will pay off its indebtedness to petroleum marketers. This unfortunately will have a multiplier effect on the nationwide supply and distribution of petroleum products which presently is still a struggle,’’ he said.

The association scribe said, this letter serves as a reminder and an opportunity for government and its agencies to speedily approve and pay off its remaining subsidy era indebtedness to all the association’s members and all petroleum marketing companies.

Penpushing, however, report that the lingering fuel scarcity across the country has been on for about three months, as the situation failed to improve, while there is no uniformity on the approved pump price of N145 per litre.