By Michael Eboh

The Independent Petroleum Marketers  Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, said yesterday, said it had directed its members to commence 24 hours sale of petrol nationwide to help ease the current fuel scarcity.

To this end, President of IPMAN,  Mr. Chinedu Okoronkwo, in a statement in Abuja, called on the Nigeria Police to provide adequate protection for its members.

According to him, members had been given directive to sell products for 24 hours daily to reduce the long stretch of queues at different filling station across the country.

The president who expressed concern about the queue at filling stations said the measure was to ease the scarcity and make the product available for motorists.

He said, “We are not part of the strike that gave birth to the scarcity but when the system is burnt all other parts of the body would be affected.

“Major marketers, transporters owners and drivers, in one way or the other had issues to resolve.

“If this thing persist we will all suffer we may not even be able to pay our workers, but we are happy that the whole issue has been resolved. We have directed our members to service the nation 24 hours.