UPDATE: IPMAN DENIES SHUTTING FILLING STATIONS

 

...Says Kuluwa has Retracted previous Statement

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has described as “fake” news doing the rounds that its over 30, 000 members would be shutting down their filling stations.

 

The National Controller Operations, IPMAN, Mike Osatuyi, who spoke with The PUNCH on Tuesday, said the memo to members which emanated from the Chairman, IPMAN Borno chapter, Mohammed Kuluwa, earlier on Tuesday, asking all its members in the state to suspend services was a wrong move.

 

“Fake news. Bad eggs and sabotage,” Osatuyi told The PUNCH over the phone.

 

Also, the IPMAN National President, Elder Chinedu Okonkwo, told The PUNCH when contacted by our correspondent via the telephone that Kuluwa should not have issued the statement credited to him.

 

He should not have issued the statement. In fact, he has retracted it,” Okonkwo said.

 

Kuluwa had earlier directed that IPMAN members in Borno State should suspend ordering products from source until further notice.

 

The association said the decision followed, “the critical situation as it affect our sourcing and selling of product at lost (sic) and the action of the authority to impose the selling of product at a lost price (sic) on our side,” the first statement read.

 

Source: PUNCH newspaper