ONDO IPMAN ORDERS CLOSURE OF FILLING STATIONS IN ONDO
IPMAN Chairman, Adejimi Adedapo and other marketers st the police station.
ONDO IPMAN ORDERS CLOSURE OF FILLING STATIONS IN ONDO
Following the arrest and harassment of members and their families in ONDO state, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria ( IPMAN) has ordered closure of all filling station in the state.
The development that came over the arrest and harassment of notable members of the association in the state by the Senior Special Assistance to the ONDO state governor on special duties and his team, Mr. Doyin Odebowale in Akure, the ONDO capital.
Giving the directive, the IPMAN chairman in the state, Hon. Adejimi Adedapo said the action of the SSA and his team amount to sabotage , hiding facts and punishment for the marketers and the general citizens of the state, by using the military to intimidate the marketers.
According to the IPMAN chairman, the association in the recent past have ensured that citizenry in the state get the product, premium motor spirit ( PMS) at all cost with risk and herculean task surrounding circumstances getting the product.
He posits that lifting the PMS from depots attracts nothing less than #165 per litre, which all other factors like haulage, over head cost and miscellaneous have not been added.
While narrating his ordeal in the hands of the SSA and his team, Engr. Bayo Olowookere ( BAYDUK) said the action of the governor's aide is quite barbaric and uncalled for at this time when all Nigerians are battling to survive.
The MD BAYDUK group of companies said he, his wife and some staff were harassed , later before he was ordered for arrest along his wife by the governor's aide.
The IPMAN chairman who noted that majority of filling stations were disrupted and their fuel were dispensed indiscriminately.
He therefore said members of the IPMAN in the state can not continue to bear the grunt and bear the hardships on their part, as all attempts to meet with the state government on the issue fell on deaf ears and instance, hence calling on their members to cease from selling fuel in all the sixteen local government areas of the state and heed to the call.
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