IPMAN Members Protest in Ilorin over Non Payment of PEF
Petrol marketers in Kwara State have protested over the non-payment of Petroleum Equilisation Fund (PEF) for the past four months.
THISDAY checks revealed that, the development had continued to give the members Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) headaches to the extent that, it had adversely affected their business.
The aggrieved members who came to the office of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin on Friday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and ensure the PEF was released in order to bring new lease of life to their business.
The spokesperson of the group, Alhaji Yusuf Gambari explained to journalists that, "as marketers in this current dispensation, we are finding it tough to stay in the business".
According to him, "we go to Lagos to buy PMS at N82 per liter while transportation fare from Lagos to Ilorin is N5 per liter".
"The license the NNPC issued to us, they promised that we shall get all petroleum products from Oke-Oyi fuel depot whereby the products are not secured at Oke-Oyi depot, the government mandated the PEF to pay our transportation but for the past four months now, the PEF did not pay the money to us".
"All the marketers obtained loans from banks to fund their businesses and with this development, they are running at a loss because they have to pay their staffs and also maintain their fuel stations thereby making them to spend from their capital funds.
"We therefore appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene so that the executive director of PEF will release our money".
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Paul Olawoore Elections UTME KWAFFA Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen Akanbi-Oke Nigeria Customs Service AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro Abdulrasaq Alaro KSIRS Dan Iya Musa Yeketi Abatemi-Usman Oye Tinuoye Abubakar Baba Clement Yomi Adeboye Razak Atunwa Haliru Dantoro Bolaji Nagode Yomi Adeboye Olayinka Jelili Yusuf Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen Kayode Laro ASMAU PLAZA Balogun Gambari Halidu Danbaba Iyabo Dupe Adekeye Modibo Kawu Sidikat Uthman Ajibola Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship Sabitiyu Grillo Kayode Issa Temi Kolawole Ahmad Uthman Garment Factory Zaratu Umar Quareeb Islamic Association Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon Ajikobi Alabe Hamidu Olowo Ahmed Bolaji Nagode Oba Abdulraheem Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State Sadiq Umar Umar Ahmed Gunu Shururat Olatinwo Ibrahim Labaika Owo Arugbo School Of Nursing Olayinka Olaogun IFK Saka Aleshinloye QuickWin Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station Ibrahim Bio Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji Idowu Laro Sidikat Alaya Aminat Ahmed Kale Bayero Ashiru Village Alive Development Association Musa Abdullahi Bukola Ajikobi Ado Bayero Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum Osinbajo AbdulRauf Keji Theophilus Oyebiyi Kwara Basketball Association Funmilayo Mohammed Abdulhakeem Amao Crystal Corner Shops Isapa Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa

