The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Suleja\/Abuja Unit, has threatened to embark on an industrial action over alleged extortion by officials of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
The Chairman of the unit, Alhaji Yahaya Ahman Alhassan, who stated this in a chat with newsmen, yesterday, said the strike action will commence, today.
IPMAN also said that DPR request for daily transaction records from filling stations is another bone of contention.
According to Alhassan, \u201cIPMAN has no other alternative other than instructing our members not to load from Suleja depot in Niger State to express our frustrations after all efforts to make DPR officials desist from unethical practices failed.\u201d
He added that \u201cIPMAN Suleja\/Abuja Unit needs explanation from DPR concerning demand for daily sale activities from filling stations,\u201d saying \u201cthese issues have to be resolved before we can commence lifting of products from the depot.\u201d
Similarly, Secretary of the unit, Alhaji Raji Munir, said that \u201ca situation whereby the regulatory agency of federal government is engaging in unethical practices was most unfortunate.\u201d
In this vein, Raji said he aligned himself \u201cwhole heatedly in support of the strike\u201d with a view to addressing \u201cour grievances.\u201d
He also said that IPMAN monitoring team will \u201cbe fully on ground throughout the unit to ensure compliance during the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Suleja\/Abuja Unit, has threatened to embark on an industrial action over alleged extortion by officials of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).The Chairman of the unit, Alhaji Yahaya Ahman Alhassan, who stated this in a chat with newsmen, yesterday, said the strike action will commence, today.IPMAN also said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}