The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria on Monday announced the suspension of a scheduled nationwide strike after meeting with the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru.
IPMAN said this in Abuja in a statement released by Ndu Ughamadu, the NNPC Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division.
According to the statement, the Chairman of the IPMAN Committee on FOREX Intervention, Products Sourcing and Distribution, Alhaji Musa Felande, said the meeting also addressed all pending issues concerning the Association.
Felande said the meeting put to rest earlier grievances on issues relating to products supply, equalization fund, access to forex and pricing of products which are of interest to IPMAN.
He said: “This is a very remarkable day for IPMAN and the country. We want to let the public know today that IPMAN is now one single group and we are determined to continue to support the government.
“We are calling on all our IPMAN members to go on with the usual supply and distribution of products in their respective stations and retail outlets across the country.”
Quoting Alhaji Zarma Mustapha, another member of the committee, the statement said that the decision of the Baru-led NNPC Management to intervene on the issue of bulk purchase agreement had gone a long way in soothing the frayed nerves of some IPMAN members across the country.
He said IPMAN, whose members “own 19,000 out of the 25,000 registered fuel outlets across the country”, had resolved not only to work with the NNPC in ensuring fuel availability but also to do so under a united IPMAN.
The meeting was to find a solution to long queues which suddenly resurfaced
on Monday.
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