The Depot and Petroleum Marketers
Association (DAPPMA), on Friday, said unpaid subsidy claims owed by the
Federal Government has continue to hinder importation of petroleum
products into the country.
Olufemi Adewole, the Executive Secretary
of DAPPMA, said that banks were not ready to give loans to members of
his association again.
Adewole said the few marketers that had
the products were loading while the others were looking forward to when
the government would settle them.
He said the marketers were trying their
best to ensure that scarcity of petroleum products was reduced to
minimal level, but the only solution was for them to start importation.
The executive secretary urged the
government to expedite action on the payment so that the marketers would
commence importation fully and reduce the hardship associated with the
fuel scarcity.
He commended the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) efforts in seeing the Port Harcourt
Refining Company Limited start refining crude oil in July.
Adewole, however, said that it was too early to comment on the development.
The oil marketers on June 4, said they
were still being owed more than N291bn subsidy claims by the Federal
Government and denied that they were saboteurs.
NAN
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