Imo State Government Intervenes On Rift Between NSCDC, Petroleum Marketers.

Petroleum marketers who have locked their filling stations on Thursday September 8, 2016, throughout Imo state to protest alleged harassment of their members will resume sale of petroleum products on Friday September 9.....


Speaking to newsmen at the Government House, Owerri after their meeting with the Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, the Chairman of Independent Petroleum Marketers in the State, Chief Rockby Ebere said members had to shut their stations in protest of the fatal shooting of one of their workers in Okigwe by men of the NSCDC which resulted in the victims hospitalization at the FMC Umuahia.

Chief Ebere commended the Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere for government’s intervention in the matter which made the independent marketers to suspend their action.

Speaking also to newsmen shortly after the meeting with the Deputy Governor, the Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps described the shooting of an attendant in one of the petrol stations in Okigwe as accidental, pointing out that the injured attendant has been visited in the hospital and is responding to treatment. The NSCDC commandant disclosed that his men were performing their legitimate duties of checking adulteration of petroleum products and petroleum pipeline vandalization when a scuffle arose between his men and some sellers of petroleum products which resulted in the injury.

Earlier, the Deputy Governor Prince Madumere said government had to summon the meeting between it and petroleum marketers to ensure that they reopened their stations as the closure of the stations was uncalled for. Prince Madumere expressed satisfaction that the marketers have agreed to resume sales of petroleum products on Friday (today), and assured the Public that the fuel scarcity experienced in the state in the past 24 hours has ended