IPMAN laments long closure of NNPC depot in Enugu

Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Enugu Depot branch, has called on the South-East governors and other Igbo leaders to intervene and engage the Federal Government on the urgent need to revitalise the long abandoned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Emene, Enugu State.

IPMAN chairman, Enugu Depot, Chinedu Anyaso, lamented that the abandonment of the Enugu depot had been adversely affecting the people of the zone and beyond as they have to travel very far to lift petroleum products.Rising from a general meeting of  the association  and other affiliate unions under Enugu NNPC Depot Community, Anyaso said the depot has been abandoned for over two decades, a situation, he said, has inflicted hardship on the people.

According to him, their resolve was to appeal to leaders of the South-East, especially the governors, to intervene, so as to ameliorate the challenges facing stakeholders in the  oil industry as a result of continued disuse of the NNPC Enugu Depot by the Federal Government.

“IPMAN will soon write the South-East Governors Forum, SEGF, as well as National and State Assembly caucuses from the zone to officially update them with the economic and investment losses, among others, resulting from the long disuse of Enugu NNPC,” Anyaso said.

SOURCE: Vanguard