PH - The National President of the Independent Petroleum
Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Lawson Obasi, on Sunday in Port
Harcourt, urged the Nigerian Government to decentralise loading of petroleum
products to make for effective loading at depots across the country.
The IPMAN boss said that spreading of petroleum products to
other coastal depots across the country would end the current scarcity, adding
that a situation where government only distributed petroleum products to tank
farms in Lagos was partly responsible for current scarcity and high cost of
product.
"The current government approach, where marketers across the country are expected to load petroleum products from only depots in Lagos state, is counter-productive.
"To solve current scarcity of fuel; government must decongest Lagos by sending petroleum products to coastal depots in Port Harcourt, Calabar and Warri.
"By decentralising supply and distribution from Lagos to other depots; it would become easier for IPMAN members to lift products and distribute to filling stations," he said.
Obasi said the current policy by government should be
revised to enable marketers have unlimited access to petroleum products for
distribution to final consumers.
He denied marketers hoarded products to deepen current
scarcity to make more profit from sales.
According to him, the Pipelines Products Marketing Company
should, as a matter of urgency, commence distribution of products to other
depots in the South-South to end current fuel scarcity.
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