The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, says the Federal Government is responding with the view to averting its nationwide strike.
The National President of the Association, Billy Gillis-Harry, made this known on Monday while responding to questions on ‘The Morning Brief’, a programme on Channels Television.
Gilly-Harris listed the issues that led to the strike declaration as primarily the alleged monopoly on the part of the Dangote Refinery.
He however stated that stakeholders in the downstream sector were being engaged by the government to resolve the lingering issues.
“The issue at hand is that we want the industry to operate in a way that all players are efficiently serving Nigerians.
“We have advocated that there be a clearly defined role for all the players. Over 50 years ago, industry players set up retail outlets, so you have several stakeholders in the industry. We have the major markets, we have the depot, the independent marketers, PETROAN, NUPENG, and NARTO.
“We have had a situation in the last few months. From June, we started getting fillers of the Dangote Refinery wanting to involve itself in all the tiers of the business- from refining, to storage, to logistics, and then possibly finally the retail outlets,” Gillis-Harry said.
