COMMUTERS in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, were, on Thursday,
stranded at various bus stops in the metropolis, following a reduction
in the number of commercial vehicles that plied the roads.
The
reduction in the number of commercial vehicles was a result of
artificial fuel scarcity that hit the state capital as a result of the
shutting of many petrol stations run by independent petroleum marketers.
The
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) had rowed, following the refusal
of the latter to heed a directive that petrol should be sold at the
official regulated pump price of N97 per litre.
Meanwhile, the
Oyo and Osun state chapters of IPMAN, in a communi-qué issued at the
end of an emergency meeting in Ibadan, on Thursday, vowed not to
dispense petroleum products to motorists unless their members were
allowed to lift petrol, diesel and kerosene at the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) depot at Apata, Ibadan.
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