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Why there is fuel scarcity, IPMAN confirms our worst fears

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Nigeria Today June 21, 2022
Updated 2022/06/21 at 11:50 AM
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Monday, June 20, 2022 turned out to be an unexpectedly tough one for Lagosians with the return of queues to fuel stations and crowds at bus stops.

This was as a result of the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol which affected businesses which depend on the product for power.

While many could not fuel their cars, the few commercial vehicles that managed to offer services raised their fares, leaving many residents having to spend more or trek to their respective destinations.

NTN investigations also revealed that the situation was the same in Abuja, Akure the Ondo state capital, as well as few other cities.

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As of Sunday, rumours had it that the impending scarcity was a result of strike by members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), but in an interview with Channels Television, the Lagos Zonal Chairman of IPMAN, Akin Akinrinade, explained that the situation across the state is as a result of the operating environment which has become hostile to their businesses.

Akinrinade stated that the petroleum marketers were not on strike as feared but have found it difficult to operate, considering the dependence on diesel whose price has skyrocketed.

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“Members of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria IPMAN have shut down their stations, not because we are striking; we are not on strike,” he said.

“Rather, the business environment has been very hostile to us such that we can no longer do business under this condition. For you to load a litre of petrol, you pay in N162 per litre.”

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The IPMAN official was quick to say the situation had nothing to do with the removal of subsidy or deregulation of the petroleum sector.

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He listed the high cost of buying petrol at the depots, the high cost of diesel for running their station, and the increased cost of freight as the major factors responsible.

Akinrinade stressed that it was no longer feasible to sell the product at the recommended price of N165 to a litre, adding that the landing cost of petrol was between N175 to N178 naira to the litre.

“You now have to add the cost of transportation which is between N6 to N8, depending on the distance within Lagos,” he explained. “If it is outside Lagos, it is much more than that.

“So, if you add N8 to N162, you already have N170 and the government which is the regulator wants us to sell at N165; we have not even added the charges at the depot and the running cost at our stations.”

“You know what diesel says now, and you know how epileptic power supply is; we run on generator, using diesel at N800 per litre. There is no station in Lagos that uses less than 50 litres (of diesel) per day.

“So, our members can no longer sell (petrol) at N165 per litre; in fact, there is no reasonable person in this business that can sell below N180 per litre, so it is not as if we are on strike,” he concluded.

The erratic supply of electricity in Nigeria makes this a difficult time for citizens.

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Nigeria Today June 21, 2022
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