The Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has warned that his government will not allow anybody or a group of persons to bring about hardship to the people of Imo.

The governor on Sunday during a church service in Owerri said that the people of the state have been subjected to harsh treatment as they are buying petroleum products at a ridiculous price engendered by the artificial scarcity created by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and Petroleum Tanker Driver’s Association.

He also said that the people of the state deserve better treatment hence he will set up a task force for the monitoring of sales of petroleum products at the regulated price and any petroleum marketer found wanting, would be made to face the law and appropriate sanctions meted out.

Uzodimma said: ‘Over a period of time now, we have witnessed the untoward hardship occasioned by the artificial scarcity created by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the Petroleum Tanker Driver’s Association wherein citizens have been subjected to the harsh treatment of purchasing Petroleum products at ridiculous price.

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”My administration would not fold arms and watch anybody or group of persons impose undue hardship on the people of Imo State. On this note, I therefore advise the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) to forthwith, rescind on their actions over the artificial scarcity created.

”I shall set up a taskforce for the monitoring of sales of Petroleum products at the regulated price and any Petroleum Marketer found wanting, would be made to face the law and appropriate sanctions meted out. Imolites deserve better treatment and that I would ensure to the last.

”We have continued to progress the course of building our dear State and restoring it to a motherland we are proud of. Despite the numerous challenges we are faced with, both the politically motivated and those of natural cause, we shall move unrelentingly in the actualization of our dreams.

”For the Lord has heard our supplications, I therefore call on you my brothers and sisters to, as a matter of necessity, never retract the support you have been granting my administration as we deliver on the dividends we desire.”