Nigeria:IPMAN Threathen Strike Over Petroleum Equalisation Fund
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria
(IPMAN), have threatened to go on indefinite strike, to demand for
settlement of the outstanding N17 billion owed them by the Petroleum
Equalisation Fund (PEF).
Alhaji Umaru Ngelzarma, the North East Zonal Chairman of IPMAN, told
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri that some petrol
dealers were owed various sums of money by the Fund and had their
business activities grounded.
"Some of our members with low capital base, had their business
activities grounded while others had their petrol stations sealed up by
banks, because they could not service their debts," he said. He said
the marketers from the North East zone, comprising Gombe, Adamawa, Jos
and Maiduguri, had at a recent meeting, resolved to notify IPMAN
National Secretariat of their plan to embark on strike.
The IPMAN chairman therefore, appealed to all stakeholders in the
petroleum industry, to intervene and ensure that they were paid, to
avert the impending strike.
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