NNPC apologises on fuel scarcity

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC, yesterday, apologised to Nigerians for the hardship
experienced in purchasing petrol, while it also stated that it
had entered into a partnership with security agencies in the
country to assist in the monitoring of fuel supply across the
country.
He said: “We must all make sure that petroleum products get
across to Nigerians at the regulated price especially as the
yuletide season approaches. We have enough products and
we want to plead with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTDs)
not to be involved in the diversion of petroleum products in
order to avoid causing untold hardship to motorists.”
Role of the security agencies
Providing insight on the role of the security agencies in
curbing product diversion, Managing Director of the Pipelines
and Products Marketing Company, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-
Ogbue, said the DSS and EFCC have been mobilized to bring
to book any marketer involved in sabotaging the efforts of the
Federal Government in making petroleum products available
to motorists across the country.
She said: “We have invited the EFCC and DSS to join us in
this campaign of monitoring the movement of petroleum
products and they have our mandate to sanction any errant
marketer. Enough is enough.”
She urged Nigerians and other motorists to desist from panic
buying assuring that there are sufficient petroleum products to
satisfy local consumption.
Meanwhile, giving breakdown of fuel supplied to petrol
stations, the NNPC stated that Suleja, Kaduna, Kano, Minna,
Gusau, Mosimi and Satelite depots dispatched 7.398 million
litres, 0.937 million litres, 4.4 million litres, 0.444 million litres,
0.939 million litres, 4.351 million litres and 1.937 million litres
respectively.
In addition Ore, Ibadan, Gombe, Benin, Warri, Port Harcourt,
Aba, Makurdi and Enugu dispatched 0.338 million litres, 0.412
million litres, 3.024 million litres, 0.318 million litres, 0.318
million litres, 3.097 million litres, 0.298 million litres, 0.891
million litres and 1.737 million litres respectively to petrol
stations across the country.