Oil marketers under the aegis of Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) have called on the federal government to pay them their
He however assured the federal government that they are completely in support of the subsidy removal.
“This is because in less than an hour that Mr. President announced the removal of the subsidy, the price changed and that affected a lot of marketers. We are talking about millions of naira. Before the removal, a tanker of fuel was selling for about seven million, but in less than an hour, it went up to 25 million naira, where is the money?
He urged the federal government to pay marketers their outstanding of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund to boost their capital and enable them to stay in business.
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