Nigeria’s fuel sector now better than past 10 years – IPMAN

By Muhammad Tanko Shittu Jos

Th e National Secretary, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Alhaji Danladi Garba Pasali, has said the petroleum sector in Nigeria has witnessed improvement under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime than in the past 10 years. Th e IPMAN scribe said this while fi elding questions from journalists in Jos, stating that one of the major achievements of the Buhari led administration is the fi xing of all the countries refi neries and depots. “We have never witnessed any progress in the petroleum sector than now in this country, in recent times all the country’s refi neries are now functioning. Importation of fuel has been reduced by almost 45 percent,” he said. According Pasali, in the last 10 years all NNPC depots were not functioning, but today all the satellite depots at Mosimi, Ibadan, Ilorin and Kano are functioning, fuel is lifted from them.
“Works are going on at the fuel exploration sites in the North, the group managing director Mr. Maikanti Baru, is doing well and it is hopeful that by the end of 2018, fuel extraction will commence, ” he enthused. Pasali said the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu’s assertion of stop on fuel importation by 2019, “is indeed a reality, because Kachikwu has put in place good plan for the actualization of that.” “He has ensured that all the refi neries and most of the NNPC depots are functioning, and that in itself is a sign of ending the importation, ” Pasali asserted. He said only blind folded political opponents and those that have looted public funds, who are so desperate and, ..”have now found themselves in a serious dilemma, that is why they are saying the government has not performed.”

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