The immediate past Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund Management Board, Mrs. Sharon Kasali, has stated that Petroleum marketers who complain of not receiving their bridging claims are mostly those involved in fraudulent activities. Punch reports.
According to Kasali, some fuel marketers are yet to be paid their bridging claims because their demands are unverified. She described the claims as attempts to rob the government.
Kasali spoke at the headquarters of the PEF in Abuja on Monday while handing over to her successor, Mrs. Asabe Ahmed.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria had alleged that the scarcity of petroleum products nationwide had persisted because of the non-payment of bridging claims of about N42bn to its members by PEF.
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