Oil marketers have pleaded with Dangote to choose a comprehensive system of approach after the company brought out CNG-powered delivery trucks, which makes the new fleet inadequate to ensure nationwide supply of gas alone.
The national president of the Petroleum Products Retails Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, Mr. Billy Gillis-Harry, while speaking on Channels Television's The Morning Brief, received Dangote's investment but urged that, it must align with the existing downstream infrastructure.
In his statement, "All we are requesting for is comprehensive because there's no way Dangote's trusts will satisfy the supply products to all part of the country,
Also, we are investing in CNG trucks, so there's no much conception that Dangote is the only one with trucks as such.
We all want to make sure of easy and working supplies to get to places where Dangote's truck could not get to".
Remember that Dangote reviewed intensions of purchasing 4,000 trucks to start direct deliveries to marketers, 1,000 of which was announced arrived, With the remainder said to be coming from China.
The delivery model brought up considerations among the marketers that it could pick depot owners and stop the years of long time distribution network that serves smaller towns and local stations.
Gillis-Harry reviewed that the PETROAN members are still loading products from Dangote but want official negotiations and assurances that retailers will keep access to depots across the country.
Public responses from business figures has been drawn to this.
Remember when billionaire Femi Otedola commented on the problem, pleading for marketers to redesign, sell more than needed assets, and reinvest to keep being competitive in the new domestic-product time.
On the other hand, the PETROAN president didn't agree with Otedela.
“And I think that (Otedola’s statement) is not a very dependable thought or statement,” Gillis-Harry said.
"Are you saying that all the investment that took place in that sector should just be forgotten? We all worked hand in hand during the petroleum distribution time. Truly, old things will go away and new things will come.
“But there are infrastructures that systematically will be pulled out to be able to serve even in this current situation .”