The National Executive Committee {NEC} of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria {IPMAN}, has denied a report credited to the National President of IPMAN, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, claiming that DSS and Police were responsible for hike in fuel price.
In a press statement, IPMAN National President, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo described the report as a very misleading, fabricated and faceless report.
His rebuttal was contained in a press release he personally issued.
Entitled: “House Committee Public hearing with IPMAN: setting the records straight against mischievous and faceless online reportage,” the statement reads:
The National Executive Committee {NEC} of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria {IPMAN}, has observed with total dismay, a very misleading fabricated and faceless report, purportedly credited to the National President of IPMAN, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo.
In the highly malicious and unstructured false report, captioned, “DSS, POLICE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIKE IN FUEL PRICE” IPMAN PRESIDENT, the faceless online reporter, whose major motive by simple deduction is nothing other than to stoke the embers of relational and social crisis, as well as cause disaffection and sew seeds of ill-will between the leadership of IPMAN and these frontline security agencies, is no doubt a paid agent recruited to do a hatchet job”.
It has to be noted during the House of Representatives Public Hearing, held on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, at no time during the House of Representative did either the National President of IPMAN or any NEC member, express or espouse such a view.
The online reportage, is a well-orchestrated act of wickedness, designed for purely self-serving reasons to paint the noble association in a negative light and pitch it against Federal Law Enforcement Authorities.
On our part as a responsible and law-abiding association, we will get to the root of this satanic write – up and tract the authors.
For purposes of cogent and verifiable evidence, any member of the general public as well as the two top- notch security agencies, can fact-check from members of the House of Representatives Press Corps,. Who covered the event, whether such views were expressed?
The caliber of responsible print and broadcast journalists, including few online media establishments, who officially covered the event, can collaborate IPMAN’s statement of fact.
This would equally confirm the fact that, at no time did neither the National President Of IPMAN nor any other Executive of IPMAN, make such a misleading statement, as falsely crafted and put out in a rag-tagged online publication, just to cause disaffection between our noble association and the two sister federal government security agencies.
The National President Of IPMAN, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, in preferring solutions to the animated social problems of pump price increase of petroleum products, told the House of Representatives Committee that the only way out is for the Federal Government to quickly adopt the alternative clean energy alternative concept of Compressed National Gas, commonly called the {CNG}, which he said, would help in powering homes, public, official and private establishments with very minimal costs, when compared with other petroleum products.
The National President of IPMAN, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, is therefore using the instance of the PRESS STATEMENT to further caution other faceless and wicked mischief makers against embarking on such campaign of calumny.
The National President of IPMAN, Elder Chinedu, has therefore, urged, the Department Of State Services, [DSS], Nigeria Police Force and all well-meaning Nigerians, to discountenance the wicked and evil-premised machinations of this ghost writer.
Signed:
Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo
National President of IPMAN
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