Punch newspaper<\/a>, another major industrial organization has joined the chorus of criticism.\n <\/p>\n What NOGASA said<\/p>\n
\n The Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) has expressed severe misgivings about Dangote’s planned distribution strategy.\n <\/p>\n
![\"Dangote](\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'600'%20height%3D'367'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" "\\"Dangote")
<\/p>\n
\n Traditionally, NOGASA members serve as middlemen, acquiring goods from refineries and distributing them to filling stations and end customers.\n <\/p>\n
\n With Dangote trying to completely skip these intermediaries, the organization believes that its members would be at risk of job cuts.\n <\/p>\n
\n Speaking on behalf of the association, NOGASA President Benneth Korie warned that the new agreement could have severe consequences for the downstream sector, including the destabilization of the country’s petroleum supply chain.\n <\/p>\n
\n He elaborated on his initial concern, noting that the transition might result in the loss of thousands of jobs, primarily among those employed by independent merchants, transporters, and suppliers whose livelihoods rely on the current distribution framework.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cA lot of jobs are at stake, and we are kicking against this new way of supplying products to end users,\u201d Korie stated.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt will remove jobs from a lot of them and some of our staff will be redundant, some of our trucks will be redundant,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n
\n Stakeholders are meeting to discuss the possible effects of the plan as the Dangote refinery gets ready to commence the plan.\n <\/p>\n
\n A National Executive Council meeting has been set for July 31 by NOGASA in order to address the problem and create a cohesive plan of action.\n <\/p>\n
\n Yusuf Othman, the National President of the National Association of Road Transport Owners, affirmed that interested parties would be gathering to discuss the issue and express their opinions.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some hailed the move as a game changer for fuel distribution in the country, it quickly sparked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-14267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}