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Nigeria: We're Not Appreciated - Ipman
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Leadership (Abuja)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has expressed concern over the non appreciation of its contributions to the economy.
The first President of IPMAN, Chief Best Anekwe, expressed the view in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja.
Anekwe, who is attending the IPMAN sensitisation workshop on reforms in the downstream oil and gas sector, said it was time government recognised the body as a critical stakeholder in the sector.
"We want the Federal Government to recognise us. We build the filling stations in all parts of the country.
We take the products there also, right to the people.
"Our spread and coverage are truly national, unlike the major petroleum marketers who concentrate in the state capitals.
"Yet, these are the people the government accords greater recognition and allocates more products for distribution.
"Before we came on board only foreign nationals and companies distributed petroleum products in the country," Anekwe said.
He said that IPMAN members had since "initiated and floated a company of our own, the Nigeria Independent Petroleum Company Plc (NIPCO) to stabilise the industry and serve our members ."
"We have come of age, we need to stand on our own and help our country," Anekwe, who is also the Chairman of NIPCO Plc, said.
He said that hitherto nobody gave IPMAN any chance of doing serious business or having the capacity for pipeline and storage integrity.
"When we started, we did not have the storage facilities to hold products, but today the largest storage facility ever in the country is owned by NIPCO.
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"The Federal Government pays more attention to the oil majors but we control more than 70 per cent of filling stations across the country," Anekwe said.
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