Petroleum products marketers and the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday dodged journalists who sought to find out the outstanding payment due fuel suppliers as subsidy claims.

​The ​Major Oil Marketers Association ​had ​claimed the​y were still owed N200 billion after the government paid them N154 billion on Thursday.

The money was to enable the marketers settle the National Association of Road Transport Owners that withdrew their services over alleged N21 billion debt, causing fuel scarcity.

But the Minister on Sunday faulted the marketers, saying the outstanding payment, based on weekly data by Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency template, could not exceed N131 billion, from the initial N98 billion.
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