IPMAN described the
minister’s leaked letter to President Muhammadu Buhari as another attempt to
divert public attention from the successes achieved in the already sanitized
sector.
The Independent Petroleum
Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has said it considered the accusation
by Minister of state for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu against the head of
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Maikanti Baru as “very
ridiculous.”
In a statement on Wednesday
signed by its National Secretary Danladi Garba Pasali, the group called on
President Buhari to disregard any attempt to scuttle the achievements in the
downstream oil sector.
Pasali said: “As his
position as chairman of NNPC board, the minister should have resolved any
internal issue at the board meeting, not to resort to media war.”
“We are not surprised that
Dr. Baru was accused of insubordination by the minister because if the GMD has
allowed himself to become an errand boy to the minister just as some of the
past GMDs did, he wouldn’t have been accused of such,” he stated.
The statement reads
further: “Part of the reforms that Dr. Baru’s team are executing which became a
nightmare to some stakeholders like the minister and some labour unions,
include the efficiency in petroleum products supply, appointing technocrats
into right positions and sanitizing the imports of petroleum products which
stabilizes the fuel supply in the country within the last two years.
“We use this medium to
inform the general public to always desist from any unsolicited rumours of fuel
scarcity by any person or group of persons particularly the leadership of the
Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), who in their
tenure have constantly been in the habit of calling for unwarranted strike
actions now numbering over twenty (20) for their personal gains and doing so
under the guise of trying to achieve a misguided and unsupported public
policy.”
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