Dangote Refinery officials and members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria have scheduled a meeting for this week to map out modalities for the direct lifting of petrol and also reduction in price.
According to IPMAN spokesperson Chinedu Ukadike memebers are expecting a positive out come that will impact on petrol distrbution and pricing.
“There is a meeting scheduled for this week between Dangote and IPMAN. We are happy that Dangote has set on a new course in terms of looking to other stakeholders to distribute its products.
” It is now distributing to major marketers, and we are hopeful that with time it will start distributing to independent marketers”, Mr. Ukadike said.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited is the entity lifting the product from the Dangote Refinery and has set the price for between N950 and N1,100 depending on the location.
The NNPCL is yet to supply petrol to many fuel stations across the country, despite lifting the product for a week.
“The current situation is that NNPC is still serving us with their imported products. That’s what we are loading for now and they haven’t communicated to us about the issue of Dangote.
“I think what they (NNPC) did was to take Dangote fuel to their own (NNPC) retail outlets because there was no design for NNPC to give IPMAN products via trucks,” Ukadike stated.
