Ex-rep Rotimi Makinde Urges FG Not To Scrap PPMC, Gives Reasons

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Rotimi Makinde has urged the Federal Government not to scrap   the Pipeline, Product and Marketing Company plc.

Rotimi, who was a staff of the PPMC before leaving to become a politician, noted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Monday night that the mission statement of the agency stands as a good reason not to end its existence.

‘The idea behind the creation of  the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, a subsidiary of  the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, cannot be over emphasized. The Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) is a wholly-owned downstream subsidiary Business Unit of NNPC, with the primary responsibility of profitably and efficiently marketing refined petroleum products in the domestic market and ensuring products supply efficiency either from domestic refining or from imports.

In addition to its core mandate, PPMC is the National Strategic Reserve Holder for PMS and a major supplier of PMS nationwide…

With the above analysis of the mission statement  of the company also important to note is  the fact that  its good management can eliminate a lot of things that cause loss and death on our roads. It is really a sad story that in Nigeria, we still use heavy vehicles and trailers to transport petroleum  products on our highways causing road damage and constant loss of lives that can be avoided through transportation of our various product through all these designated pipelines.

For instance PPMC pipelines from Port Harcourt to Aba of just 52 kilometers, PH to Enugu 210 kilometers distance, Enugu to Markudi 180kilometre. In the Western part of Nigeria, the pipelines that exist are Mosimi to Ibadan about 80 kilometers, Ibadan to Ilorin 168 kilometers, Mosimi to Ore 151kilometres, Ore to Benin 110 up to Warri which is 89.9 kilometers. All roads in this axis do record calamities and huge cost of maintenance by the federal government.

This means that there is a need for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rethink the on- going concession and contracts for the overhauling of our various depots with the idea of handing them over to investors, a tactical and dangerous way to hand over national asset to some few individuals.

PPMC can survive on its own, run effectively if well- managed.  The pipelines simply need to be overhauled, and  made to work with the intention of commercializing it in such a way to break even with the government to ensure total protection.

No known economy policy can survive without the protection of our pipelines across the country. Oil and Gas is our major sources of revenue in this country, we certainly cannot totally leave it in the hands of some powerful individual to run. The pipelines can operate and transport products to various depots and relatively charge for both local production and imported products.

PPMC should remain our national pride, so that we can overhaul the management to be more effective but not to totally scrap it’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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