 We are now being joined by Mr. Chinadu Kadike, P.R.O, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria. Mr. Kadike, good evening. Good evening, how are you? I'm good, how are you doing? I'm fine. Now, I understand that it is the NNPC that has the blending plant that can blend, feel, you know, and, you know, clinically too. Why, then, is the Independent Marketers Association going into the blending of these products when they do not have the wherewithal to do so? If you listen to the GMD of NNPC, it is shown that the tracking device or the contractor cannot be able to show where some of these petroleum products have gone to and also remember that it said that some of these petroleum products might have thrown out of the plant. So, like I said before earlier, as of now, we have not had any contact with the management of the GMDs at this time. So, they are able to access to just to drink our tapas of the swamps, which are protected that have these agro-saturated products. Now, we are talking about our capital here, but I've been tied down to the frame of time. And some of these products are half-placed. Worldwide, 20 to 1,000 litres of these agro-saturated products or plant-based products, you know. And as Independent Marketers, we are service-oriented. We are also professional. And as much as the government regulates the products we have. So, we can just not sit tight and watch and enjoy and suffer. We also have to resolve by the National Appraisal who also obtained an agi, who also obtained a marketash to see how they can be able to help for the federal government to see. So, some of our marketash in Tegel have experimented this time by adding some fresh produce to it to see what they can be able to blend since it contains excessive ethanol and sulfur. So, and the sulfur marketash, reverse it and the industry and delta-stiff are also tried as much as possible to see whether they can bring in fresh fuel so that they can be able to blend this particular product. And some of them, it works out for them and it doesn't work out for them. So, the theory that we are deadlocked. Supposing it works out like food and you have worked out what are the food and it doesn't work out for you. Because that could all remain in that station and the station will be quantized and this will continue to prosper. So, as a patriotic Nigerian and also have this mission present as a health mission. If I had to say, okay, let us see how can they be able to help to come out of this long term because people are being panicked by it. And because of this brief, this caught chains of supply. It has affected the accused people. So, and this is coming out to be changed. But right now, this evening, the first food, private depots are loaded and we do it. I think we will get a little bit relieved. All right, so how safe was this blended product by the marketers B for consumption? Well, they said the product has excessive ethanol and that means it is not blended top. So, and those who have also done that have also seen that have permitted it. It also moves. So, it doesn't mean that it's a combustion. So, they are good to ensure that that product is very good. So, the people who have done something already have identified that it's working. So, we also have to identify that one. But I understand, I understand that they do not have the testing machines to determine that. So, how can they verify certainly that it is okay? Yeah, we don't have the testing machine to verify that. But we also have to set it. Where you are in this kind of lockdown, your station is closed, and you have to put those parts on the ground. You have all over time to put them on the ground. They bounce on your neck. Market buyers are also on your neck. And tomorrow, the supplier will come to your office to say that you are harder to do the program. So, you have to do something to run back to the treatment. So, that is why it seems to have seen that health is not coming to the internet. What we do is to decide on other means to see how we can deal with it. Although, some of us have also written to the authority to also tell them that we have located these criminals in some police stations and are also happy with it for them. So, who can do it? Who has to do something? Who has to say, we don't have the equipment. We don't have as much as one of our sister's association has also tried to acquire some of the equipment. But we, the independent marketers, we don't have such equipment. And we must have to do something. So, that's also the meaning. Yeah, the predicament of the independent marketers is very clear to all. And one understands the need to do something as you keep repeating. And that also makes one wonder, what is the NNPC doing as a gatekeeper, so to speak? What are they doing? Well, the composition, my national president, I was the top manager of the NNPC, I think we also suggested that they should try as much as possible to see what they can do to push products inside to the inland depots, you know. And those NNPC inland depots, we also have because these are depots that are independent marketers solely dependent. And the kind of problem we're also seeing in some of our private tax firms is that the product are not being sold at the government's greatest price. Most of the tax firms owners are selling their products at 1.65 million per litre, 1.67 million. So how can independent marketers sell at 1.65 million? When the government is selling at 1.65 million? So these are problems to us. And I've also asked the manager of NNPC of people's pretty sure that products are being pushed to the inland depots. We are NNPC, perhaps, so in control of this product and can be able to distribute it to the independent, the independent marketers who can go to the public and sell. So as everything continues like this, it's very that you might not be able to get your product as one that was a progressive delivery. You might not be able to get your product at 1.75, 200. So, and the market has to be this, that is the essence of it, because this lockdown is not for the benefit of the government. We cannot be able to put a hand and see Maxxat and Nigeria as a part of the long-term exploration. Wow. One is not sounding... Well, let's just leave it at that. Let's just leave it at that. It is a very unpleasant situation that we find ourselves as it is, right? Yeah, yeah, very, very unpleasant. Very, very unpleasant because there must be a platform. There must be a reserve. When something like this happens, you look at the policies of government that they have imported 300 million litters. It's imported, it's critical to that. It's not that we are just pulling back our reserves where, you know, to the amount of the main deal. Nigeria should have a reserve. We are a millions of petroleum products to be stored in. We have this kind of stuff. And without a doubt, making our refineries functional is the best solution to all of this. The best... To make it a competitive environment, we are modular refineries who would be ready to establish modular refineries, refineries to the world. You will say, we can even export. Why can't Nigeria export petroleum products? Since we have to, yeah, localize those. So, and we are losing a climate where we are losing value, where even our assets are depreciated and high cost of living. These are the key reactions of petroleum products. And that is why it is sometimes you say, you say, you say, you say, you say, please, on this issue, just to ensure that Nigeria does suffer the reporations of the asset of the country. Thank you so much, Mr. Cheney Dukadike, the PR of Ipman for your time again. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.