IPMAN Threatens To Shut Down All Filling Stations Over DPR Incessant Fees

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has warned the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) over the incessant fees inflicted on its members threatening that if fees imposed on its member isn’t stopped soon that there will be a total shut down of all filling stations in all of the South-Western region of the country.

Speaking at a stakeholder meeting on Tuesday held at IPMAN building, Odo-Ona, Ibadan, Oyo State, Chairman IPMAN Western Zone, Alhaji Dele Tajudeen, said “it is high time we deliberated on the activities of DPR and curb the illegal fees being charged on our members.
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The meeting had in attendance leaders of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) and Independent Marketers Branch (IMB) given the DPRs a 72-hours ultimatum to revert the back to the old fee regime.

The Chairman IPMAN Alhaji Tajudeen noted while speaking with the media that members of the group were all speaking with one voice to reject and deliberate the astronomical increase in all DPR fees as well as the negative impact they have on the operation of petroleum marketers in the country.
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In the communique issued at the end of the meeting and signed by Alhaji Tajudeen IPMAN, PTD and IMB said:

“That the revenue drive of the DPR has beclouded its regulatory role and the main product of marketers is still being regulated by the government and there has not been an increase in marketers margin in the last 15-years.

“The centralisation of product through the Customers Express has made product distribution cumbersome and fraudulent, such that some marketers have not been allocated any product in the last six to nine months and it is practically impossible for marketers to operate under the new DPR fees regime and allocation of product to all marketers from a central point in Abuja.

“Having made various representations to the DPR and PPMC management on the issues raised without a positive result, or reaction, it was resolved that three days ultimatum, commencing from October 2021, be given to Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (DPR) to revert to the old fee regimes and the PPMC management authority to decentralise product allocation failing which all IPMAN affiliated petrol filling stations in Western Zone (System 2B) will be shut to the buying public”.

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