IPMAN Inaugurates Sale Of Kerosene At N50 Per Litre Nationwide -

THE Independent Petroleum
Marketers Association of Nigeria
(IPMAN), on Wednesday, said it had
commenced sale of kerosene at N50
per litre at filling stations
nationwide.
Alhaji Abdulkadri Aminu, national
president of the association, gave
the assurance during the
inauguration of sale of kerosene at
N50 per litre in Lagos.
Aminu said members had been
mandated to ensure the sale of the
product at the regulated price of
N50 per litre as directed by the
Federal Government.
According to him, the sale of
kerosene at the approved
government price had been one of
the projects of IPMAN, in
partnership with PPMC and NNPC.
“The association has been at the
vanguard of ensuring that the
product that is meant for the local
people should be sold at the
approved price.
“This has also been the focus of the
Minister of Petroleum. Today, we are
grateful to God that we have seen it
happen.
“I want to assure every Nigerian that
it’s going to be sustained,” Aminu
said.
He said that the sale of kerosene at
the approved price would be
launched in other states of the
country, adding that any member
found selling above the regulated
price would be sanctioned.
“From here, we are going to Kano,
Sokoto, Enugu, Jos, Yola, Maiduguri
and other places.
“This is the first time I am coming to
visit our retail outlets and I can
assure that the exercise is going to
be continuous.
“The chairman of South West zone
has been directed to go to other
states within the southern states to
launch the project,” he said.
Aminu said the monitoring team
would be inaugurated to ensure
compliance in all the IPMAN outlets
nationwide.
He said issues of scarcity of
kerosene had to be addressed,
adding that the whole world had
diversified from kerosene to gas.
Mr Olumide Ogunmade, Western
Zone chairman of IPMAN, said that
the association considered it
necessary to ensure that
independent marketers who had the
products were selling at the
regulated price.
Ogunmade said that the essence of
selling kerosene at N50 per litre was
to demonstrate to the government
that IPMAN was a conformist
association.
He said that IPMAN members were
closer to the masses and
understood the best model to adopt
to make the product available to
them at the appropriate price.
“We want members of the public to
benefit from the official rate of N50,
and if the government can sustain
the supply, we are sure and
confident that the product will get to
the target market.”
According to him, Nigerians are
suffering and all efforts should be
made to reduce the cost of products
in the oil and gas sector to make life
more meaningful to the citizens.
SOURCE: www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/
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