Fuel shortages became noticeable in Adamawa State by Monday evening as a result of IPMAN members’ strike action.
Only motorists and other fuel users who still had stock of what they had purchased the previous day were able to operate throughout the state on Monday, as they could not get the commodity again.
Residents appeared to be able to move around freely since there were enough commercial tricycle operators who hadn’t run out of gas, but many other users, such as private owners of power generators and commercial GSM phone charging facilities, were left powerless by Monday evening.
Members of the state IPMAN, who had complained to the press over the weekend that their loaded petrol tankers were being unfairly seized by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) operatives, escalated their protest on Monday by refusing to open their stations for motorists and other petrol users to fill their tanks or Jerry cans.
Addressing a press briefing in Yola earlier on Saturday, June 22, IPMAN said that Customs’ anti-smuggling team, Operation Whirlwind, had ‘abandoned its usual responsibilities’ and was seizing petrol tankers belonging to its members, resulting in massive financial losses.
Alhaji Dahiru Buba, the state chairman of IPMAN, said that five of his trucks laden with fuel were unlawfully taken and demanded state and federal governments to call the Nigeria Customs Service to order.
Customs’ Operation Whirlwind, which began last month, has seized trucks of petrol that they think are on their route to adjacent nations as illicit items.
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