Tony Edike
4 November 2009
Enugu — The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), yesterday advised the Federal Government to shelve the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector for now, noting that unless the nation's refineries become functional, deregulation would create more problems for both Nigerians and the government.
Chairman of Enugu Depot of IPMAN, Chief Chidi Ezinwa, said in Enugu, that even though the independent petroleum marketers welcomed the idea of deregulation, necessary facilities must first be put in place to ensure its success.
He said, "there is just no way you can deregulate when all the petroleum depots in the country are not working. How do you want people to survive?
The government stopped oil importers since three months ago from importing Kerosene, today you can see the negative result. Kerosene now sells for between N130 and N140 per litre.
Ezinwa called for a policy that would make it mandatory for anybody or company allocated oil wells to own at least a refinery in the country to enable them refine part of the crude oil they lift from the country before exporting same.
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nigeria is not just a land of contradictions,where a nation has so much in aboundance in both human and natural resouses yet her citezenry lives in abject poverty.there is no light,no good road,no water to use and the oll we have so much in aboundance is a curse for the nation.is deregulation the problem of naija now?all the trillions of naira that have been allocated and looted what has the govt done about that?the only are that excites our govt is any are that will inflict further pains on nigerians.honestly the only solution to naija problems is REVOLUTION.Nigerians lets arise and fight fight for our right.
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