Lagos and Abuja Fuel queues cleared, NNPC disclosed

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The company said yesterday in a statement from its General Manager, Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, that the situation in Abuja and Lagos would not focus on increasing gas deliveries to other states, in order to restore normalcy across the country. The statement, quoting NNPC Group Executive Director Dr. Maikanti Baru, about the company's efforts so far to eliminate fuel queues, is a coalition of civil society groups under the auspices of the government. of civil society. has fallen hard on oil traders in the country, stating that they were behind the shortage as Nigerians celebrated the Christmas and New Year festivities. Baru was quoted as saying, "With regard to trucks, we have more than doubled the number of trucks going into the country. ", we loaded and distributed products from inshore and strategic deposits of the interior like Jos. We loaded 733 trucks yesterday and the normal number of trucks we need to keep the country is about 700 but 800 to 850 trucks before the shortage of gasoline. "We've increased the number of trucks to at least 1 733 and we have supported it for a week and there will be more than enough products for motorists in the coming weeks." Insisting that the shortage could have been avoided, Baru said traders had engaged in the illegal practice of hoarding and misappropriating the product to prolong the situation. He said most state capitals would get more supplies  to restore normalcy.
"We have maintained our position that this shortage is self-inflicted by traders. NNPC has more than 30 days of sufficiency of petroleum products, especially gasoline, and at current consumption rate of about 27 to 28 million liters a day, we should be very comfortable until the end of January 2018, even if we import a drop of gasoline in this country, "he explained. He also warned the traders against stopping the petroleum products, pointing out that they bought gasoline at N133.28k per liter and that in addition to the transport cost of N7.20k per liter, they kept a comfortable margin. The monitoring of the situation in Abuja by THISDAY showed that the queues had considerably decreased or were even non-existent at most service stations visited yesterday. In addition, the national coordinator of the ICDA, Mr. Abolore Bakare, yesterday criticized oil marketers for attempting to intimidate the government by reintroducing subsidy payments. He claimed that the fuel shortage was artificial and the intervention of those in the oil and gas downstream, in their attempt to tax their exploitation interests to the NNPC through the subsidy scheme and rising prices. . "We have good authority that oil buyers have proposed a pump price increase to N171.05k that the NNPC has refused, which is why they decided to create the artificial shortage. "It is clear to all Nigerians that downstream operators have decided to sabotage the government's efforts at all costs, which is why they are accumulating fuel at service stations across the country," Bakare said. He added, "We were dismayed that when NNPC officials, including GMD, Maikanti Baru, PPPRA executive secretary and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, conduct a tour of the service stations, these sabotours remained on their positions.

The group also said it was suspicious of the complicity of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the Association of Senior Executives of Petroleum and Natural Gas of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) in the oil crisis in Nigeria. national scale. Also citing the refusal of both organizations to honor the invitation of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (downstream), he urged the NNPC not to agree to the demands of traders.

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