The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, South-West Zone, has directed its members to boycott the Lekki-Epe corridor from Monday to avoid embarrassment.
The zone’s IPMAN chairman, Chief Oyewole Akanni, directed in a statement sent to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Sunday.
According to the chairman, the national office had previously advised its members not to deploy trucks to fill petroleum products along the Lekki-Epe route beginning Monday.
Akanni added that this was due to the anticipated intimidation and harassment that would result from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation’s adoption of the E-Call-up policy.
He pointed out that stakeholders’ efforts to settle issues in the best interests of their members had yet to produce any results.
Akanni observed that the state actor was determined to implement the N12,500 E-Call-up system on its own terms, disregarding reasonable logic, as provided by IPMAN and NARTO, among others.
“In view of the aforementioned and other germane concerns, the association advises all independent marketers to withdraw their depot representatives and truck drivers from the Lekki-Epe corridor from Monday, June 16, 2025, until otherwise advised.
“Please be assured and guided that this and other actions that might follow are in the interests of our members and their businesses,” the statement read.
