The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has threatened to suspend operations in Anambra State without further notice until the state government paid them.

 The state is said to be indebted to the group to the tune of N900 million.

IPMAN has reached out to Anambra State governor, Professor Charles Soludo to pay contractors the sum of N900 million owed them for supplying Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) to power streetlights before they were stopped.

According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN), the Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Depot Community in charge of Anambra, Ebonyi, and Enugu states, Mr Chinedu Anyaso, made the appeal in Awka on Friday.

Anyaso said IPMAN had written the Anambra government to inform it that they had met the conditions set for them to pay the marketers their money.

A copy of the letter which was made available to journalists, said the IPMAN general assembly was eagerly waiting for the response of the Anambra government to their demand.

The letter, titled: ‘Request For Debt Payment of N900,664,805.00 owed our members for Diesel supplied and Services Rendered in Respect Of Street Lights,’, was addressed to the Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs

“We refer to your response on the above subject, dated Nov. 3 on the report of some vendors that are yet to return some of the government-owned generator sets allotted to them for the street lights projects.

“Be informed, Sir, that all the generators have been fully returned to the government.

“We, therefore, humbly request that the debt payments owed our members for diesel supplied and services rendered be treated and paid as promised,” it said.