The Unbiased Petroleum Entrepreneurs Affiliation of Nigeria (IPMAN) has threatened to cease petroleum product provides to Ogun State resulting from ongoing intimidation by “an unlawful Process Power” arrange by the state authorities to disrupt its members’ companies statewide.
The brand new IPMAN state chairman in Mosimi Depot, Chief Salimon Ajayi, made the menace yesterday in Abeokuta, the state capital, whereas talking with journalists in regards to the state of IPMAN’s companies throughout Ogun, significantly the incessant harassment of their workers statewide.
Ajayi defined that the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led administration within the state had, on November 6, 2024, inaugurated a Process Power that has been visiting his members’ fueling stations to demand measuring cans and financial inducements, along with numerous types of harassment of IPMAN personnel throughout Ogun.
Ajayi acknowledged that the inauguration of the Process Power, which has one Adeyemi Badejo as its chairman, together with operatives of the Nigeria Police Power, personnel of the state-owned Site visitors Compliance and Enforcement Company (TRACE), and the state-owned tv broadcast station, contradicts the provisions of the regulation as contained in Sections 48 and 309 of the Petroleum Business Act (PIA) 2021.
Issuing a stern warning to the suitable authorities authority within the state, IPMAN emphatically declared that its members can be shutting down operations in Ogun State efficient Monday, November 18, 2024, ought to the Ogun State authorities’s Process Power “proceed disturbing our members, and no petroleum product-laden vehicles might be allowed to enter Ogun State.
“It’s unlucky that IPMAN members are all the time the goal when authorities insurance policies negatively affect the general public. I’m of the opinion that the duty drive is pointless and unlawful. Sections 48 and 309 of the Petroleum Business Act, 2021, forbid the institution of such a process drive.
“What the Ogun state authorities intends to realize is being approached illegally and should be vehemently resisted.”
It was, nevertheless, gathered that IPMAN Mosimi Depot has additionally reported the matter to the state’s discipline workplace of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) by means of a letter dated November 11, 2024, through which the affiliation expressed its displeasure over the unlawful structure of the Process Power.
Within the letter, a replica of which was made obtainable to newsmen in Abeokuta, IPMAN clearly acknowledged that every one its members are law-abiding residents, who would neither enterprise into any illegality in the midst of conducting their official enterprise nor succumb to any intimidation from state authorities brokers.
The letter reads partially: “We write to tell your esteemed workplace of a brand new Process Power just lately arrange by the Ogun State authorities. The group has been visiting our petroleum shelling out stations, forcefully requesting measuring cans to measure the petroleum merchandise, harassing our workers, and demanding cash.”
“We hereby deliver to your discover all these fraudulent acts being perpetrated by the Process Power in all our fueling shelling out stations throughout the state. All our members are law-abiding residents, who conduct their official companies in accordance with the regulation governing them.”
Ajayi, nevertheless, appealed to residents and members of the Ogun State enterprise neighborhood to carry the state authorities accountable for any inconveniences that will come up ought to the state governor, Abiodun, fail to disband the Process Power between now and the evening of Sunday, November 17, 2024.
