- The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria has suspended the shut down of operations
- The suspension is coming barely five hours after the association announced the directives to its members
- The association tells its members to commence loading operations immediately and await further notification in respect of their long overdue payment
The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) has suspended the shutdown of operations barely five hours after announcing the directives to its members.
This was contained in a statement on Monday, December 10, by the executive secretary of the association, Olufemi Adewole, Punch reports.
Legit.ng recalls that members of the association were on Sunday, December 9, directed to shut down operations over unpaid debt by the federal government.
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According to DAPPMAN, the earlier directive was issued due to continuing indebtedness of the federal government to members of the association.
Adewole said: “However, following the intervention of well-meaning Nigerians including the National Assembly, as represented by the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) and constructive engagement of the Federal Government team by the labour unions most affected by the disengagement of our personnel, namely, PENGASSAN, NUPENG, NARTO, and the PTD, DAPPMAN has resolved to recall its disengaged personnel for five days to give the FG’s team the opportunity to conclude its process of paying marketers the full outstanding of N800bn with the first tranche being the amount already approved by the Federal Executive Council.
“We hope that government would make good its promise to see that those issues are resolved by Friday, December 14, 2018 as promised.
“To this end, our disengaged personnel would be recalled on Monday, December 10 and considering the reactivation time or hitherto shutdown system, all depots with fuel stock should be fully active same day.
“DAPPMAN depots are, therefore, advised to commence loading operations immediately and await further notification in respect of our long overdue payment.”
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Legit.ng previously reported that members of Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) were on Sunday, December 9, directed by the leadership of the association to shut down operations at midnight of Sunday, December 9.
The association said operations should be shut down until the federal government pays all the outstanding debt which it owed the marketers.
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